Get the last 4 characters of output from standard out

Question

I have a script that is running and uses

lspci -s 0a.00.1 

This returns

0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9
         


        

Answer 1

Try this, say if the string is stored in the variable foo.

foo=`lspci -s 0a.00.1` # the foo value should be "0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9"
echo ${foo:(-4)}  # which should output 4dc9