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Given ANY GitHub repository url string like:

git://github.com/some-user/my-repo.git

or

[email protected]:some-user/my-repo.git

or

https://github.com/some-user/my-repo.git

What is the best way in bash to extract the repository name my-repo from any of the following strings? The solution MUST work for all types of urls specified above.

Thanks.

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$ url=git://github.com/some-user/my-repo.git
$ basename=$(basename $url)
$ echo $basename
my-repo.git
$ filename=${basename%.*}
$ echo $filename
my-repo
$ extension=${basename##*.}
$ echo $extension
git
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  • Thanks, trying to make it a one liner, but not working. REPO_NAME=${`basename $REPO_URL`%.*}
    – Justin
    Aug 14, 2012 at 4:17
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    echo $(basename "$url" ".${url##*.}").
    – quanta
    Aug 14, 2012 at 6:31
  • +1. Is there anything similar to get the hostname, i.e. github.com, instead, @quanta?
    – chepukha
    Mar 31, 2015 at 2:19
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I'd go with basename $URL .git.

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    the best answer. The shortest as well
    – Andrey Regentov
    Apr 22, 2020 at 9:23
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Old post, but I faced the same problem recently.

The regex ^(https|git)(:\/\/|@)([^\/:]+)[\/:]([^\/:]+)\/(.+).git$ works for the three types of URL.

#!/bin/bash

# url="git://github.com/some-user/my-repo.git"
# url="https://github.com/some-user/my-repo.git"
url="[email protected]:some-user/my-repo.git"

re="^(https|git)(:\/\/|@)([^\/:]+)[\/:]([^\/:]+)\/(.+)(.git)*$"

if [[ $url =~ $re ]]; then    
    protocol=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
    separator=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
    hostname=${BASH_REMATCH[3]}
    user=${BASH_REMATCH[4]}
    repo=${BASH_REMATCH[5]}
fi

Explaination (see it in action on regex101):

  • ^ matches the start of a string
  • (https|git) matches and captures the characters https or git
  • (:\/\/|@) matches and captures the characters :// or @
  • ([^\/:]+) matches and captures one character or more that is not / nor :
  • [\/:] matches one character that is / or :
  • ([^\/:]+) matches and captures one character or more that is not / nor :, yet again
  • [\/:] matches the character /
  • (.+) matches and captures one character or more
  • (.git)* matches optional .git suffix at the end
  • $ matches the end of a string

This if far from perfect, as something like [email protected]:some-user/my-repo.git would match, but I think it's fine enough for extraction.

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  • 🏆this is gold!
    – Omri
    Jul 1, 2018 at 14:24
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    some urls don't have .git at the end.
    – kenn
    Jan 2, 2019 at 14:58
  • @kenn: then they'd not be a valid remote for git, however. See git-scm.com/docs/git-push#URLS.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Feb 9, 2022 at 12:06
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    I'm using an expanded version (play with it on regex101: ^((https?|ssh|git|ftps?):\/\/)?(([^\/@]+)@)?([^\/:]+)[\/:]([^\/:]+)\/(.+).git\/?$, which better matches the official spec for URLs. Group 2 is the scheme, if missing the default is ssh.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Feb 9, 2022 at 12:13
  • @MartijnPieters nice, thanks. I added variables to capture group contents and made .git suffix optional: ^((?<protocol>https?|ssh|git|ftps?):\/\/)?((?<user>[^\/@]+)@)?(?<hostname>[^\/:]+)[\/:](?<pathHead>[^\/:]+)\/(?<pathTail>(.+)(.git)?\/?)$, testable here: regex101.com/r/NtqNET/1
    – kcris
    Oct 14, 2023 at 9:53
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Summing up:

  • Get url without (optional) suffix:

    url_without_suffix="${url%.*}"

  • Get repository name:

    reponame="$(basename "${url_without_suffix}")"

  • Get user (host) name afterwards:

    hostname="$(basename "${url_without_suffix%/${reponame}}")"
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use regular expression: /([^/]+)\.git$/

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basename $git_repo_url | tr -d ".git"
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basename is my favorite, but you can also use sed:

url=git://github.com/some-user/my-repo.git
reponame="$(echo $url | sed -r 's/.+\/([^.]+)(\.git)?/\1/')"
# reponame = "my-repo"

"sed" will delete all text until the last / + the .git extension (if exists), and will retain the match of group \1 which is everything except dot ([^.]+)

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Using Hitcham's awesome answer above allowed me to come up with this, using sed to output exactly what needed: org/reponame with sed.

output = echo ${git_url} | sed -nr  's/^(https|git)(:\/\/|@)([^\/:]+)[\/:]([^\/:]+)\/(.+).git$$/\4\/\3/p'`

Works well in ubuntu, doesn't work for the sed available by default on macosx.

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A slight modification to @Hicham's answer

^(https|git)(:\/\/|@)([^\/:]+)[\/:]([^\/:]+)\/(.+?)(\.git)?$

Will extract out the .git suffix as well.

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After fiddling half a day in regex101 and using input from @womble and the others.. I came up with this, which also has the capture names to denote what is handled where.. It may help even me in the neer future :P

/^((?<protocol>https?|ssh|git|ftps?):\/\/)?((?<user>[^\/@]+)@)?(?<host>[^\/:]+)[\/:](?<port>[^\/:]+)\/(?<path>.+\/)?(?<repo>.+?)(?<suffix>\.git[\/]?)?$/

it basically allows to use the repo name (see part ?) in a

.../reponame.git, .../reponame.git/, .../reponame and .../reponame/

repo url, as it handles the optional .git

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