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Subject: Re: Bourne shell programming problem
From: Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il>
To: Eric Boucher <eric_boucher60@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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