Sed-Special character replacement

usshell · #1 (**permalink**) 05-22-2008

Hi

I want to replace ./testsed.ksh
with
testsed.ksh

./ is to be removed

scriptnm=`sed -e 's/\.///' $0

does not work

Please help

elthox · #2 (**permalink**) 05-22-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by usshell

Hi

I want to replace ./testsed.ksh
with
testsed.ksh

./ is to be removed

scriptnm=`sed -e 's/\.///' $0

does not work

Please help

sed -e 's/\.\///g' $0

penchal_boddu · #3 (**permalink**) 05-22-2008

Hi

using sed

echo './testsed.ksh' | sed 's#\./##'

using awk

echo './testsed.ksh' | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'

one more

basename ./testsed.ksh

Thanks
Penchal

aju_kup · #4 (**permalink**) 05-22-2008

Code:

$ echo $var
./testsed.ksh
$ echo $var | sed 's:^\./::'
testsed.ksh
$

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