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pdklinux79

06-17-2008 12:38 PM

Another modification of a variable

name=/data/cur/00000.chd.hgt

now i need to remove /data/cur and want the vairable as
name=0000.chd.hgt

i tried cut but it didnt work for me. can anyone let me know how to do it?
thanks

colucix

06-17-2008 12:41 PM

This is a task for the basename command:

Code:

name=$(basename $name)

See man basename for details. Or, without calling an external command:

Code:

name=${name##*/}

This strip the longest part of the pattern that matches the front of the string, where the pattern is any sequence of characters followed by slash "*/".

pdklinux79

06-17-2008 12:50 PM

Thanks . it is working.

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