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Old 09-13-2007
Printing the invert of the last field of awk
in csh

set x = "/home/usr/dir1/file1"

if i do:

echo $x | awk -F\/ '{print $NF}'

will result to:
"file1"

how do i invert the output to:
"/home/usr/dir1"

Smilie
# 2  
Old 09-13-2007
Why use awk?

Code:
dirname $x

anyway to use awk:

Code:
echo $x|awk -F\/ '{for (i=1;i<=NF-2;i++)printf("%s/",$i);printf("%s\n",$i)}'

Last edited by Klashxx; 09-13-2007 at 07:38 AM..
# 3  
Old 09-13-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by jehrome_rando
in csh

set x = "/home/usr/dir1/file1"

if i do:

echo $x | awk -F\/ '{print $NF}'

will result to:
"file1"

how do i invert the output to:
"/home/usr/dir1"
[...]
In csh:

Code:
% set x = "/home/usr/dir1/file1"
% echo $x:h
/home/usr/dir1

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