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Date:      Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:31:07 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sh: getting <category>/<portname> from pwd
Message-ID:  <d06cd71d-bb8b-192b-d927-0314ae544a11@grosbein.net>
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26.10.2022 5:14, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm writing a shell script to feed poudriere testports and I need to get <category>/<portname> from ports tree:
> 
> `pwd`:
> /home/user/work/freebsd/ports/<category>/<portname>
> 
> `pwd | rev | cut -d / -f1,2 | rev` do the trick but it is so uggly!
> 
> Is there a shell option to get it?

Naturally, there is.

cwd=$(pwd)
echo ${cd##*/ports/}

This is documented in sh(1) manual page, section "Parameter Expansion".
No need to call external tools.




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