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# 8  
Old 03-22-2004
personaly i would use perls

File::Path or File::Find
# 9  
Old 03-24-2004
Personally, I would have recommended dirname as Perderabo did! In any case, in keeping with the theme of this thread, here is my long winded version of grabbing an arguments path!! Smilie

Quote:
I thought I should be able to do this with sed or awk, but I couldn't figure it out.Here is an awk solution. Assume an absolute path is passed in.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
     
PARENT_PATH=$1
     
echo "Parent is $PARENT_PATH"
     
TEST=$(echo $PARENT_PATH | awk ' {
          arraySize = split($0, parentPath, "/");
          delete parentPath[arraySize];
    
           for (i in parentPath ) {
              path = path "/" parentPath[i];
              }
              print path;
              exit;
            }
             '
          )
echo "New Path Is: $TEST"

Last edited by google; 03-24-2004 at 12:25 AM..
# 10  
Old 03-24-2004
It is always better to use standard Unix commands when available...

dirname $Var
basename $Var
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