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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 02:00:38 -0500
To: Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il>
From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>
Subject: Re: Bourne shell programming problem
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At 08:08 02.20.2002 +0200, Gilad Rom wrote:
>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
>
>
> > 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.
> >

If foo is a file I'd use /usr/bin/basename

var="/toto/tata/foo"
base=$(/usr/bin/basename $var)

- Jim


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