Getting a value from variable - Shell Programming and Scripting

aajmani · #1 09-16-2005

I want to extract a string from the variable value which is

Newpath="/home/user1/Projects/newone"

I just want to extract '/home/user1/Projects' from the above variable. I have used the following command

proj_dir=`echo $Newpath | sed 's,^.*//$,\1,'`

But sed garbled.

Thanks for the help

tmarikle · #2 09-16-2005

"\1" doesn't have anything to paste.

echo $Newpath | sed 's/^$.*$\/.*$/\1/'

reborg · #3 09-16-2005

In ksh/bash us the shell...

proj_dir=${Newpath%/*}

Ygor · #4 09-18-2005

Try...

Code:

proj_dir=$(dirname $Newpath)

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