How to extract domain name from url?

Question

How do I extract the domain name from a url using bash? like: http://example.com/ to example.com must work for any tld, not just .com

Answer 1

You can use simple AWK way to extract the domain name as follows:

echo http://example.com/index.php | awk -F[/:] '{print $4}' 

OUTPUT: example.com

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