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hcs24

05-10-2010 07:42 AM

last occurrence of a char in string

Hello,

i have a couple of string paths like:
/vmfs/volumes/002264987352/vsma/uma.vrz
/vmfs/volumes/00226498882/tsda.trz
..

i want to substitude the strigs from the last occurrence of / that i have only the filenames like uma.vrz and tsda.trz.

How to do that any idea?
Thanks

PMP	05-10-2010 07:46 AM

Code:

echo '/vmfs/volumes/002264987352/vsma/uma.vrz' | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'

Code:

echo '/vmfs/volumes/002264987352/vsma/uma.vrz' | sed 's#.*/##g'

hcs24

05-10-2010 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PMP (Post 3963267)

Code:

echo '/vmfs/volumes/002264987352/vsma/uma.vrz' | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'

Code:

echo '/vmfs/volumes/002264987352/vsma/uma.vrz' | sed 's#.*/##g'

Thank you, it works perfect.

PMP	05-10-2010 07:51 AM

You are Welcome. Please mark the thread as Solved!!

grail

05-10-2010 08:45 AM

If using bash 4+ you can use this as well in a script:

Code:

a='/vmfs/volumes/002264987352/vsma/uma.vrz'



echo ${a##*/}

catkin

05-10-2010 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grail (Post 3963327)

If using bash 4+ you can use this as well in a script:

Works in bash 3.1 too

Code:

c@CW8:~$ bash --version

GNU bash, version 3.1.17(2)-release (i486-slackware-linux-gnu)

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

c@CW8:~$ a='/vmfs/volumes/002264987352/vsma/uma.vrz'

c@CW8:~$ echo ${a##*/}

uma.vrz

kanesf

08-18-2012 04:54 PM

for filenames, try basename and dirname

If the question is parsing filenames to get the path and/or file name, you might want to look into dirname and basename:

$ fullname="some/long/path/to/thisfile.txt"
$ dirname $fullname
some/long/path/to
$ pathname $fullname
thisfile.txt

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