Seems I'm inundating this forum with questions, but anyway:
I am writing a script that should accept one and only one argument when called.
That argument should designate a file, either with path/filename or just filename.
Now to the difficult bit:
I want to figure out a way to store... (9 Replies)
Hi there
With shell script I'm trying to split the string into two parts. One is alphanumeric part, the other one is a numeric part.
dummy_postcode_1 = 'SL1'
--> res_alpha = 'SL' and res_numeric = '1'
dummy_postcode_2 = 'S053'
--> res_alpha = 'S' and res_numeric = '053' ... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am new to this world of shell programming. I am facing a problem that is :
I have directory which has many sub directories at different depth. say
A/B/C/files
A/B/files
A/B/C/D/files
In this directory structure there exists a file called ".project" in some of the sub... (2 Replies)
For a field format such as AAL1001_MD82, how do I select(and use in if statement) only the last four elements( in this case MD82) or the first three elements (in this case AAL)?
For instance, how do I do the following - if first three elements of $x == yyy, then ... (5 Replies)
Hi there, i wonder, is it possible to use regular expressions to partially select a string?
I have a bunch of server names which look like this
server1z-test
server2z2
server45z-primary
server13z3
I want to extract up to and including the 'z' in the server name, so for example
... (4 Replies)
Hello,
let's start by giving you guys a few examples of the text:
"READ /TEXT123/ABC123"
"READ /TEXT123/ABC123/"
"READ TEXT123/ABC123"
"READ TEXT123/ABC123/"
"READ TEXT123/TEXT456/ABC123"
"READ /TEXT123/TEXT456/ABC123"
"READ /TEXT123/TEXT456/ABC123/"
TEXT and ABC can be and I... (5 Replies)
Greetings everyone. Right now I am working on a script to be used during automated deployment of servers. What I have to do is remove localhost.localdomain and localhost6.localdomain6 from the /etc/hosts file. Simple, right? Except most of the examples I've found using sed want to delete the entire... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a string that looks like:
#!/bin/sh
options="arguments: --user=alpha --group=beta --prefix=/usr/share --proxy-path=/proxy --proxy-tmp=/tmp --conf-path=/etc"
My goal is to transform the string into an array, then for each key, if it starts with "--proxy" to print the string... (2 Replies)
Hi,
How can I display only one shortest path (A/B/configure)?
$ grep configure file.txt
A/B/configure
A/B/C/configure
A/B/C/D/configure
Thank you. (9 Replies)
Can somebody help me on below question
I have path and i want to select first two directory name in variable how we can do this.
/Myname/xyz/yourname/abc/somebodyname
i want to select /Myname/xyz in variable.
Quick help will be appriciated.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Kumar (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: yadavricky
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
dirname
DIRNAME(1) User Commands DIRNAME(1)NAME
dirname - strip last component from file name
SYNOPSIS
dirname [OPTION] NAME...
DESCRIPTION
Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and trailing slashes removed; if NAME contains no /'s, output '.' (meaning the current
directory).
-z, --zero
separate output with NUL rather than newline
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
dirname /usr/bin/
-> "/usr"
dirname dir1/str dir2/str
-> "dir1" followed by "dir2"
dirname stdio.h
-> "."
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COPYRIGHT
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO basename(1), readlink(1)
The full documentation for dirname is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dirname programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info coreutils 'dirname invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 DIRNAME(1)