Hi,

I am storing ~ seperated string in a variable and by using awk i am storing values into different variables.

One of the value is windows directory structure.

like -> C:\Program files\my doucment\work\dev\test

Again I want to retrieve 'test' from this string into a variable.

v_output="C:\Program files\my doucment\test"
v_test=`echo $v_output | awk -F"\" '{print $5}'|sed 's/ //g' `

this command give me null value.

can someone help me with correct awk command?

It seems that awk is not able to read "\" becuase when i replace \ with any other character like "t". it is giving me result.

is this issue in Unix? escape char.

The catch here is "\test" being interpreted as tab "\t" when echoed,But was able to work round
May be if your unix flavor has that "-E" option for echo,its quite straight forward.

Thanks
Nagarajan G

hey thanks for reply but i got the solution.

in place of seraching "\" i search for "\\\" which has resolved the isuse.

Another way:
Regards