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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trim pathname of the file Post 302334801 by Sangtha on Thursday 16th of July 2009 01:47:41 PM
Old 07-16-2009
Trim pathname of the file
I am capturing the files in a directory to an array. I have 2 arrays with list of files in two different directories. Both the directories are supposed to have the same number of files and filenames.

I want to check that the same file exists in both the directories. After I capture the filenames in Array, I see that the file names are captured along with their pathname. So when I compare the filenames, I think the system takes the pathname into account and fails the match.

Here is what I have:

dir1 = aa/bb/cc/dd/ee
dir2 = xx/yy/ww/uu/vv/zz/tt/ss

array1=($(find "$dir1" -name "out_*" | sort -n))
array2=($(find "$dir2" -name "out_*" | sort -n))

Output looks like:
Array1 = aa/bb/cc/dd/ee/out_abcd.txt
Array2 = xx/yy/ww/uu/vv/zz/tt/ss/out_abcd.txt

When comparing these outputs I get error.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
 

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