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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting a substring starting from last occurance of a string/character Post 302152192 by nr_shan on Wednesday 19th of December 2007 01:55:10 AM
Old 12-19-2007
Ram,

You can use "basename" keyword in Unix.

for eg:

if you have a file (test1) with the content like below:

/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/xyz.txt
/bbb/ccc/ddd/123.txt


then your command must be like this:

for i in `cat test1`
do
File_Name=`basename $i`
echo $File_Name
done

Output:
xyz.txt
123.txt
 

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DisplayOfCCC(3X11)						  XLIB FUNCTIONS						DisplayOfCCC(3X11)

NAME

       DisplayOfCCC, VisualOfCCC, ScreenNumberOfCCC, ScreenWhitePointOfCCC, ClientWhitePointOfCCC - Color Conversion Context macros

SYNTAX

       DisplayOfCCC(ccc)
	    XcmsCCC ccc;

       VisualOfCCC(ccc)
	    XcmsCCC ccc;

       ScreenNumberOfCCC(ccc)
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       ScreenWhitePointOfCCC(ccc)
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       ClientWhitePointOfCCC(ccc)
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ARGUMENTS

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DESCRIPTION

       The DisplayOfCCC macro returns the display associated with the specified CCC.

       The VisualOfCCC macro returns the visual associated with the specified CCC.

       The ScreenNumberOfCCC macro returns the number of the screen associated with the specified CCC.

       The ScreenWhitePointOfCCC macro returns the screen white point of the screen associated with the specified CCC.

       The ClientWhitePointOfCC macro returns the client white point of the screen associated with the specified CCC.

SEE ALSO

       XcmsCCCOfColormap(3X11), XcmsConvertColors(3X11), XcmsCreateCCC(3X11), XcmsDefaultCCC(3X11), XcmsSetWhitePoint(3X11)
       Xlib - C Language X Interface

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