Date: 20 Feb 2002 08:08:27 +0200 From: Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il> To: Eric Boucher <eric_boucher60@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bourne shell programming problem Message-ID: <1014185310.23322.14.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh> In-Reply-To: <20020220060104.49523.qmail@web9407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020220060104.49523.qmail@web9407.mail.yahoo.com>
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What you want to do is harness the power of awk:
var="/toto/tata/foo"
dirs=`echo $var | awk -F '/' '{print $1 $2 $3;}'`
for i in $dirs
do
echo $i
done
Gilad
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 08:01, Eric Boucher wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm doing a little bourne shell program that makes
> something installed automatically on my FreeBSD. But I
> have a little problem: I want to be able to read every
> caracter of a variable. For example: Suppose I have a
> variale named TOTO and the content of TOTO is
> "/toto/tata/foo". So if I do an echo the ouput is:
> echo $TOTO
> /toto/tata/foo
>
> What I'm trying to do is to catch only "/foo" and put
> it in another variable. So I tought that if someone
> tell me how to read each caracter, I can loop over
> each caracter, remember the positition of the last "/"
> and then take all the caracters after that "/" and put
> it in a variable.
>
> Can somebody help me on this one? I hope I'm
> sufficiently clear.
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric
>
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