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Old 02-20-2012
use sed or grep?
Hello,
I have variable and I need to get few characters from that path of the directory:
Example:
Code:
 
set A = /a/b/c/d/e/f
My Code:
echo $A | sed 's/.*\(.*\).*b/\1/'
O/P:
/c/d/e/f

Instead I want a one liner preferably the same logic using sed (ease of understanding), to get just the "c" that is anything after b between (backslahes) /?/, which in this case is c.
Thanks
# 2  
Old 02-20-2012
Code:
 echo "$A" | cut -d/ -f4

Last edited by vbe; 02-20-2012 at 02:33 PM.. Reason: code tags...
# 3  
Old 02-20-2012
Can you please elaborate on this?
# 4  
Old 02-21-2012
Code:
echo "$A" | cut -d/ -f4

-d is deliminator which is "/"
-f is the field number c is the 4th field.
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-21-2012 at 03:19 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
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