[SOLVED] sed: How to remove the end of a line?

angel115 · 10-01-2007, 10:11 AM

Hello,

I need to remove the end of a line, so for this I think that sed will do the job but i didn't manage to do that.

here is a sample of my input:

Code:

/client/1388a/Screen Shot-21_10_2006.PNG

and I need to have an output like:

Code:

/client/1388a/

To summary's: I want to remove every thing which is after the last "/" of the line.

Here is what I use so far:

Code:

sed -e 's/[\ a-z0-9A-Z\.\_\-]*$//g'

but the space are not handled correctly

radoulov · 10-01-2007, 10:22 AM

If in a variable:

Code:

% v="/client/1388a/Screen Shot-21_10_2006.PNG"
% echo "${v%/*}/"
/client/1388a/

With sed (only as an example):

Code:

% sed 's /[^/]*$ / ' <(echo "/client/1388a/Screen Shot-21_10_2006.PNG")
/client/1388a/

angrybanana · 10-01-2007, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by angel115

I need to remove the end of a line, so for this I think that sed will do the job but i didn't manage to do that.

If you're not dead set on using sed you can check if you have the 'dirname' command

Code:

$ dirname "/client/1388a/Screen Shot-21_10_2006.PNG"
/client/1388a