Shell Scripting - Need some help
 

HELP ${var%/*}
Hello

I have a list of a whole bunch of cpp files, and their directories
for ex.

C/program/test.cpp
C/program/test1.h
C/personal/math.h
C/personal/iterate.cpp

Now I would like to use ${var%/*} to remove the names of the files and the last /, but i dont know how. I need to do this, so I can use sort and uniq, which would result in

C/program/
C/personal/

as being the directories that contain cpp files

Thanks

I think I should use something like ${varname%/*}, but im not sure how to use it.

I read file names off the command line, using $1, $2, I have the path saved in a variable called x
x=$1
in my loop i use find, and it prints the first list of directories

THanks for the hlep
:confused:

You can try to use dirname: