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Old 01-31-2013
Manipulation with the string using sed

hello All,
When I run
Code:
 find

command on certain directory I may get one of the following output depending on configuration
Code:
A. ./rel/prod/libpam.a
B. ./rel/fld/libpam.a
C. ./deb/detail/libpam.a
D. ./deb/err/libpam.a

I want to get output as below
Code:
A. rel/prod
B. rel/fld
C. deb/detail
D. deb/err

respectively.
I can get rid of leading "./" characters by using cut command cut -c 3-5 but how to get rid of trailing "/libpam.a" ??

Regards,
Anand Shah
# 2  
Old 01-31-2013
man find. Have you tried the option -type d?

To get rid of unwanted chars in your output lines, sed is your friend, e.g. sed 's:^..::'to remove the two initial chars.
# 3  
Old 01-31-2013
With awk
Code:
awk -F"[ ./]" '{print $1". "$5"/"$(NF-2)}' file
A. rel/prod
B. rel/fld
C. deb/detail
D. deb/err

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