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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting a substring from a string in unix Post 302421242 by arunkumarmc on Friday 14th of May 2010 12:33:56 AM
Old 05-14-2010
Thanks Amit.

In my case, when i try to find the files in a directory and assign it to a variable using this command -
Code:
listfiles=`find . -name "*sh" -newer TODAY`
echo $listfiles

i get the output as below -

Code:
./file_check.sh
./check.sh

When i try either of the below commands -
Code:
echo "listfiles "| cut -d '/' -f2

or
Code:
echo "listfiles " | awk -F"/" ' { print $2 } '

the output i am getting is - file_check.sh .

I should get file_check.sh checkfile.sh

Could you please help me in this?

Regards
Arun
Last edited by zaxxon; 05-14-2010 at 01:51 AM.. Reason: use code tags please, ty
 

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