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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting a substring from a string in unix Post 302423131 by albertogarcia on Thursday 20th of May 2010 08:33:29 AM
Old 05-20-2010
this could be a solution:

Code:
for file in $(find . -name "*sh" -newer TODAY)
do
echo $file | cut -d/ -f2

done

But if you want to use the script from any directory (not actual only):
Code:
search_path=$1
for file in $(find $search_path -name "*sh" -newer TODAY)
do
echo $file | awk -F"/" '{ print $NF}'

done

 

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basename

basename(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      basename(1B)

NAME

       basename - display portions of pathnames

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/basename string [suffix]

DESCRIPTION

       The  basename  utility deletes any prefix ending in `/' and the suffix, if present in string. It directs the result to the standard output,
       and is normally used inside substitution marks (` `) within shell procedures. The suffix is a string with no special significance  attached
       to any of the characters it contains.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Using the basename command.

       This shell procedure invoked with the argument /usr/src/bin/cat.c compiles the named file and moves the output to cat in the current direc-
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       example% mv a.out `basename $1 .c`

ATTRIBUTES

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SEE ALSO

       sh(1), attributes(5)

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