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Operating Systems AIX CUT command - cutting characters from end of string Post 302162172 by bakunin on Monday 28th of January 2008 08:12:19 AM
Old 01-28-2008
Look at the "dirname" and "basename" commands, they should suit you.

Another possibility would be to use the "${var%%/*}" shell expansion:

Code:
myvar="abcde/1234"
print - ${myvar%%/*}           # will produce "abcde"

If your variable contains more than one "/" use the single or the double percent-sign depending on what you want to get:

Code:
myvar="abcde/1234/xyz"
print - ${myvar%%/*}           # will produce "abcde"
print - ${myvar%/*}            # will produce "abcde/1234"

bakunin
 

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