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I have a text file containing

/database/sp/NTR_Vlr_Upload.sql
/database/tables/StatsTables.sql
/mib/ntr.mib
/mib/ntr.v2.mib
/scripts/operations/ntr/IMSITracer.ph


i want the last field after "/" removed like

/database/sp/
/database/tables/
/mib/
/mib/
/scripts/operations/ntr/

plz help
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Care to read the manpages ? Look at man dirname
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Code:
for line in `cat file.txt`; do dirname $i; done
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Are you looking for

cat file | awk -F "/" '{print $NF}'

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Ooops , you wanted

cat file | xargs -n1 dirname

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