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Old 02-09-2009
remove last field from string
Hi everybody!

I want to cut the last field from string, can anybody help me??

String input:: /abc1/abc2/abc3

output:: /abc1/abc2

Regards,
Kiran
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Old 02-09-2009
dirname /abc1/abc2/abc3
# 3  
Old 02-09-2009
Try something like this:

Code:
[user@host ~]$ VAR="/abc1/abc2/abc3"; echo ${VAR%/*}
/abc1/abc2

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