[SOLVED] last occurrence of a char in string

hcs24 · 05-10-2010, 07:42 AM

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}'

or

Code:

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

hcs24 · 05-10-2010, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PMP

Code:

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

or

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

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

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