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Hi,

A variable value is /home/samir/datas/data.txt
I want /home/samir/datas.
How can I get that.
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Could you explain it?
Provide some more information about what exactly you want? I didn't get what your asking..
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The exact path of data.txt i.e. /home/samir/datas/data.txt
is stored in a variable.

I want /home/samir/datas i.e. path not includes the filename
to estract and store into another variable.

Simply I want to cut /home/samir/datas from /home/samir/datas/data.txt
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Can anyone help me
how to extract /home/samir/datas
from /home/samir/datas/data.txt
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Can anyone help me
how to extract /home/samir/datas
from /home/samir/datas/data.txt
Code:
path=$(dirname /home/samir/datas/data.txt)
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echo "/home/samir/datas/data.txt" | sed 's/\(.*\/\)\(.*\)/\1/'
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Hope ...this will work out

echo $TMPVAR | awk -F / '{ for (i=1;i<NF;i++) printf $i"/"; }'

Where TMPVAR contains the path of the file.
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