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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting dirname, save cut portion to variable, clean up Post 302243919 by tret on Monday 6th of October 2008 08:29:02 PM

10-06-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by vidyadhar85

if you have this

Code:

/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/example

and you want

Code:

/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv

in some variable use

Code:

 
var=`dirname /home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/example`

or
if you have

Code:

/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/grey's anatomy/season 3

and first part remains same try this

Code:

 
var=`echo "/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/grey's anatomy/season 3"|sed 's/\(\/home\/xbmc\/sab_downloads\/video\/tv\/\)\(.*\)/\1/g' `

hey vid

the only part that will always remain the same is

Code:

/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv

after that the path changes, the first dir after "tv" is what I want to save to a variable

So if I have

Code:

/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/test example

the part I want to save to a variable is

Code:

test example

If I have

Code:

/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/grey's anatomy/season 3

I can use dirname to get rid of "season 3" leaving me with

Code:

/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/grey's anatomy

At this point what I want to save to a variable is "grey's anatomy"

The main goal is to take the path and save the show's title to a variable

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