Getting directory names from a given path in Bash?

ojha_riddhish · 04-11-2009, 12:09 AM

Dear friends,
I am programming in bash and really stuck finding directory names.
I have a script to find all the .php files on my / partition which will return the whole path. Is there a way to print directory hierarchy with all those values leaving out the forward slashes.

Thanks in advance!

ghostdog74 · 04-11-2009, 12:13 AM

if you have GNU find, you can use printf with format specifiers. check the man page for more info.

bigearsbilly · 04-11-2009, 05:27 PM

example needed.

don't understand.

ojha_riddhish · 04-13-2009, 12:32 AM

Dear friends,
I have the script which returns values like: (example)

/var/spool/mail/everything/
/usr/local/php/scripts/
/etc/httpd/conf/

These are addresses of *.php files on my root(/) partition. I just wanted to know whether I can separate all the directory names removing the '/' slashes and create a dirctory hierarchy such as:
var
|_spool
|_mail
|_everything

I can do echo $(folder%/*) and it's combinations to separate the folders but the problem is that I have to provide the number of slashes that occur in the path which I don't know at runtime. Please help if anyone knows about this tiny problem.

Thanks in advance!

ghostdog74 · 04-13-2009, 01:08 AM

Code:

mkdir -p /var/spool/mail/everything/

ojha_riddhish · 04-13-2009, 01:32 AM

Thanks, once again ghostdog74! for your fast response. But you might see that I don't want to create directories in the path. The directories are created and I want to display those directories containing php files after formatting them accordingly.

Thanks!

ghostdog74 · 04-13-2009, 01:50 AM

i still don't understand what you are wanting to do.

ojha_riddhish · 04-13-2009, 03:15 AM

Dear Friends,
I am sorry that I'm not making myself clear. I'll try once more.
I am making a php editor that crawls your hard disk for .php files to be used with the editor. After searching, it will display the files in tree-view as in Dolphin-Nautilus-Explorer that you might have experienced. The list of files are stored in a temp file that I want to read line-by-line and separate out the directory names. Then another module will generate the tree-view based on the folders and files returned. Hope, now it is clear for all of you to understand.

Thanks in advance!

ghostdog74 · 04-13-2009, 03:48 AM

if its PHP, you may want to look here

ojha_riddhish · 04-13-2009, 04:18 AM

Dear friends,
Thanks for the advise. I am using php with some bash scripts. I can get my work done in php using explode() function but I want to use in bash script. That's the question. And by the way I don't have problem in generating the tree, it's the value containing my path.

Thanks in advance!

ghostdog74 · 04-13-2009, 05:08 AM

Code:

# string="/var/spool/mail/everything/"
# echo ${string/\//}
var spool mail everything
# string=${string/\//}
# set -- $string
# echo $1
var
# echo $2
spool
# echo $3
mail