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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Filename Manipulation in AWK Post 302321853 by thanhdat on Tuesday 2nd of June 2009 08:39:49 AM
Old 06-02-2009
You can do it with sed:
Code:
input=/home/dir/kshfiles/file.out
output1=`echo $input | sed 's;.*/;;g'`
output2=`echo $output1 | sed 's/.*\([0-9a-z]\)\..\{3\}/\1/' `

hope that helps.

Last edited by thanhdat; 06-02-2009 at 09:45 AM..
 

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NAME
ftpconversions - ftpd conversions database SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The conversions known by and their attributes are stored in an ASCII file that is structured as below. Each line in the file provides a description for a single conversion. Fields are separated by colons (:). Field Description 1 strip prefix 2 strip postfix 3 addon prefix 4 addon postfix 5 external command 6 types 7 options 8 description strip postfix and addon postfix can be the file extensions or or or The file extensions the ftp server supports and the action that the ftp server performs is summarized in the table below. This feature is supported only when using the command. | | True Filename | Specified Filename | Action --------------+--------------------+--------------------------------------- filename.Z | filename | Decompress file before transmitting filename | filename.Z | Compress filename before transmitting filename | filename.tar | Tar filename before transmitting filename | filename.tar.Z | Tar and compress filename | | before transmitting external command field is used to specify the path of the program/script to be used to perform the action specified for the different file extensions as described in the above table. types field indicates the flags that must be checked before compressing, decompressing, tarring and untarring the file requested by the command. options field specifies the options for the program/script specified in the external command field. description is a short description of each conversion. NOTE: The HP-UX command does not support any option to do or If the user wants to perform any such action, he/she must then write his/her own program/script to do it and specify the pathname of the program/script in the external command field in the file. Also a copy of the programs/scripts used to perform the conversions and the respective libraries used by the programs/scripts must be copied into the home directory of each of the and user accounts for the and users to be able to perform on-the-fly conversions. WARNINGS
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was developed by the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. SEE ALSO
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