Hello All!

This is my first time posting on this site.

I'm putting together a script that unlocks selected files. I've gotten the script to allow me to select files and/or folders and run the unlock command recursively. I now what to limit users from, let's say, unlock folders from msdos formatted volumes. I can get that filter from the "mount" command and parsing that.

My issue is that when the user selects the files and/or folders the list gets outputted to a file and I can't seem to parse out only the first three slashes of each line.

ex.
if output_file1 has lines:

/Volume/test/file1.txt
/Volume/test/folder1/folder2/folder3/file2.txt
/Volume/orange/folder1/file3.txt

I want to create a loop that grabs each line, only pulls the "/Volume/test/" part of each line, runs the "mount" command with the output, then checks if the returned value of | grep msdos is true"

I can figure out everything except how to grab the "/Volume/test/" of each line. I was thinking something that would allow me to print each line up to the third "/" maybe.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are you working in a Linux environment?

Daniel B. Martin

danielbmartin - yeah I'm working in a mixed Mac and Linux environment.

---------- Post added 06-17-15 at 07:31 PM ----------

Keith Hedger - Thanks a million! That worked like a charm. I couldn't figure out the right awk parameters.

I like to use cut for this task.

With this InFile ...
... this cut ...
... produced this result ...
Daniel B. Martin