How to extract the commit ID alone from the full commit message in shell script

Question

I tried fetching only the commit ID from the commit message in the shell script, I need only "d1099308a1af0f91e93bf22cf6e9b5d294cf121d"

commit_message = "commit d1099308a1af0f91e93bf22cf6e9b5d294cf121d Author: Martin Date: Wed Apr 17 16:05:35 2019"

I tried using the following sed command, but it is not working commit_ID=$( sed -e 's/commit .(*) Author/' $commit_message )

UtLox · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-26 14:07:50Z

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You mean something like that?

sed 's/^commit \([^ ]*\).*/\1/' <<< $commit_message

output

d1099308a1af0f91e93bf22cf6e9b5d294cf121d

answered Apr 26, 2019 at 14:07

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virolino · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-26 06:09:32Z

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If you do not have other ID's, this regex will work:

[0-9a-fA-F]{20,}

If there are other ID's, then adding a look behind will help filtering:

(?<="commit\s)[0-9a-fA-F]{20,}

However, the "s" command of sed does not fetch, it "substitutes". For fetching, you may want to use "grep" or others.

answered Apr 26, 2019 at 6:09

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nbari · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-26 15:21:32Z

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Give a try to:

egrep -o "[a-f0-9]{40}" log.txt

This will return only the git commit ID SHA-1 hashes (40 digits long).

answered Apr 26, 2019 at 15:13

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