Parse URL in shell script

Question

I have url like:

sftp://user@host.net/some/random/path

I want to extract user, host and path from this string. Any part can be random lengt

Answer 1

Using Python (best tool for this job, IMHO):

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
from urlparse import urlparse

uri = os.environ['NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI']
result = urlparse(uri)
user, host = result.netloc.split('@')
path = result.path
print('user=', user)
print('host=', host)
print('path=', path)

Further reading:

• os.environ
• urlparse.urlparse()