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#1 2011-01-04 11:58:17
- whoops
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[solved] bash: remove everything before / after last slash
Hi!
I know this is easy with sed, but I could have sworn there once was a bash tool - maybe even coreutils - that's sole purpose was making strings like
"/folder/something/file.ex"
into
"/folder/something/"
or
"file.ex"
Am I mistaken or can someone tell me the name of this tool and if it's (still) common?
Thx!
Last edited by whoops (2011-01-04 12:36:09)
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#2 2011-01-04 12:13:48
- Allan
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Re: [solved] bash: remove everything before / after last slash
basename? That prints the folder.
You can do this using bash string substitution too.
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#3 2011-01-04 12:21:45
- jac
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Re: [solved] bash: remove everything before / after last slash
To answer your other question, the command "dirname". Watch out for the root directory though. Both basename and dirname are owned by coreutils.
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#4 2011-01-04 12:35:49
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Re: [solved] bash: remove everything before / after last slash
Exactly, thanks!
So simple, yet so hard to google.
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#5 2011-01-04 14:20:45
- steve___
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Re: [solved] bash: remove everything before / after last slash
You can use bash with parameter expansion:
foo="/folder/something/file.ex" ; echo "${foo##*/}" ; echo "${foo%/*}"Offline