Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:44:05 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Eric Boucher <eric_boucher60@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bourne shell programming problem Message-ID: <20020219234405.V48401@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020220060104.49523.qmail@web9407.mail.yahoo.com>; from eric_boucher60@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:01:04PM -0800 References: <20020220060104.49523.qmail@web9407.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:01:04PM -0800, 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.
You've gotten a couple of answers, so why not one more? Do it all with
builtin sh(1) abilities,
$ TOTO=/toto/tata/foo
$ echo "/${TOTO##*/}"
/foo
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