[SOLVED] Cut the selected part of directory name

kauuttt · 07-18-2012, 12:39 AM

Hello all,

In the shell script, I want to cut a portion of a directory name (which is a symbolic link to another directory)

kaushik@kaushik-desktop:/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:02.0/driver/module/drivers$ ls -alt
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2012-07-18 14:13 pci:ENS1371 -> ../../../bus/pci/drivers/ENS1371
kaushik@kaushik-desktop:/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:02.0/driver/module/drivers$

In the above, I want to get the part "ENS1371" from the full directory name of "pci:ENS1371"

Thanks for your help in advance.

kauuttt · 07-18-2012, 12:59 AM

I did it by:
echo * | cut -d":" -f2

But is there any other way to do it with awk or sed in a cleaner way?

syg00 · 07-18-2012, 01:36 AM

"man basename" ?

kauuttt · 07-18-2012, 01:48 AM

@syg00:
Thanks for your suggestion, but I don't think "basename" is going to help me out.
If you read my first post carefully, you can see that I want "ENS1371" from "pci:ENS1371". Dont think basename strips of when the delimiter is ":"

grail · 07-18-2012, 02:05 AM

How about:

Code:

cd /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:02.0/driver/module/drivers

file=(*)

echo ${file#*:}

kauuttt · 07-18-2012, 02:38 AM

@grail: Thanks.

I took your solution and ran the below script it works fine.

#!/bin/sh
cd /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:02:02.0/driver/module/drivers
match="ENS1371"
for file in *;
do
[ $(echo ${file#*:}) = "$match" ] && echo "Matched"
done

syg00 · 07-18-2012, 03:00 AM

Let's hope there's only ever one colon (easily fixed I know) ...

And in my own (weak) defence, might I point out that basename should work just fine once readlink has resolved the link.
Nowhere near as elegant as grails - gotta remember that parameter stuff one day ...

grail · 07-18-2012, 03:37 AM

Firstly, please use [code][/code] tags when displaying code.

Just a word on your test:

1. I assume there are multiple files in the directory as otherwise the for loop is pointless.

2. the echo is not required at all:

Code:

[[ ${file#*:} == $match ]]