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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk / escape character Post 302097913 by vgersh99 on Wednesday 29th of November 2006 11:11:10 AM
Old 11-29-2006
no need to 'escape'.
Given a sample input, if you need to echo 'foo2':
Code:
dir=/home/foo1/foo2
splitit=`echo $dir | awk -F '/' '{print $NF}'`
echo $splitit

the same could be accomplished easier using 'basename' - 'man basename'
 

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