Help required using cut command

mahalakshmi · #1 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006

Hi all,
I have one text as '/home/psv/file/test.ksh'. In that I want to cut the text as '/home/psv/file/' .

Let me know which command to use.

Thanks
Mahalakshmi.A

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 11-27-2006

man dirname

koti_rama · #3 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Hi All,
You can try like:

echo "/home/psv/file/test.ksh" | cut -b 01-15

Shivdatta · #4 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

$ dirname "/home/psv/file/test"
/home/psv/file

$ basename "/home/psv/file/test"
test

yunccll · #5 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

dirname or substring removal operator ${%}

Code:

str="/home/psv/file/test.ksh"

echo `dirname $str`/
echo "${str%/*}/"

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