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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting fnsplit, Extract filename from path Post 302346522 by Festus Hagen on Saturday 22nd of August 2009 05:14:34 PM
Old 08-22-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
Code:
sed "s,.*/\(.*\),\1,"

Or without the extention:
Code:
sed "s,.*/\(.*\)\..*,\1,"

If you want the "pure" filename, what's wrong with basename?
scottn, Thank you, Obliviously I don't need to say "It works"!, About basename, yup, you did miss something... the sed'ucation part!
This really is just for education with sed and RE's.

Quote:
Originally Posted by danmero
Code:
str='./filename.file.ext'
# echo $str | sed "s,.*/\(.*\)\..*$,\1,"
filename.file

danmero, Thank you, Again, you know I don't need to say "It works"!

To both!
I thank you, not only for this answer but the others I have gleaned from this site that may very well have been yours!

Anyways, A couple things stand out to me...
1. scottn's method has no '$' ... If I remember correctly the '$' means EOL.
2. Both use double quotes (") versus single (')

Super clean method ... I was way off! Smilie

Does anyone know of a workbook or something that has sed and RE projects to work through??

-Enjoy
fh : )_~
 

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