Parse string with bash and extract number

Question

I've got supervisor's status output, looking like this.

frontend                         RUNNING    pid 16652, uptime 2:11:17
nginx                            RUNNING    pid 16651, uptime 2:11:17
redis                            RUNNING    pid 16607, uptime 2:11:32

I need to extract nginx's PID. I've done it via grep -P command, but on remote machine grep is build without perl regular expression support.

Looks like sed or awk is exactly what I need, but I don't familiar with them.

Please help me to find a way how to do it, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

sed 's/.*pid \([0-9]*\).*/\1/'

Answer 2

Using AWK alone:

awk -F'[ ,]+' '{print $4}' inputfile