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Old 10-29-2008
samir_standing samir_standing is offline
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The exact path of data.txt i.e. /home/samir/datas/data.txt
is stored in a variable.

I want /home/samir/datas i.e. path not includes the filename
to estract and store into another variable.

Simply I want to cut /home/samir/datas from /home/samir/datas/data.txt