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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Truncate path and keep only filenames Post 302456635 by kicker75 on Friday 24th of September 2010 07:01:05 PM
Old 09-24-2010
Well actually the .app name is a directory name.

I was able to shorten the path to: /ThisIsAnApp.app using the following command:


Code:
find /var/mobile/Applications/ -name "*.app" | sed 's/\/.*\/.*\/.*\/\(.*\)/\/\1/g'

After looking at another post about truncating here.

While I can follow guides, and stuff, and I'm confortable with linux based system, I don't know the commands in enough details to come up with a solution myself. So just by telling me to look at the split function of perl, wouldnt be enough, but sure a starting point for me to look for.


Here is a concrete example of what exactly I'm trying to do.

If I list my /var/mobile/Applications, I will have a bunch of directories named like this:

026E729E-B9D1-4A7A-B07F-A5DAEA4F2E7E and so on.

Inside each is a few folders, and filenames. But what I want to get is the DoodleJump.app directory name inside that 026E729E-B9D1-4A7A-B07F-A5DAEA4F2E7E folder. Then create a DoodleJump.app folder in /var/stash/Themes/LoadingScreens.theme/Folders directory.

And repeat for every directories inside /var/mobile/Applications.

I hope it's more clear now.. Sorry I'm french, so...

---------- Post updated at 07:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:59 PM ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by agama
You could pipe the output through sed to strip the path:

Code:
find . -name "*.foo" | sed "s!.*/!!"

I get this error message with the following line of code:

-sh: !.*/!!": event not found
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

shtool-path

SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)					      GNU Portable Shell Tool						SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)

NAME

       shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables

SYNOPSIS

       shtool path [-s|--suppress] [-r|--reverse] [-d|--dirname] [-b|--basename] [-m|--magic] [-p|--path path] str [str ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments.  It
       prints the absolute filesystem path to the program displayed on "stdout" plus an exit code of 0 if it was really found.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -s, --suppress
	   Supress output. Useful to only test whether a program exists with the help of the return code.

       -r, --reverse
	   Transform a forward path to a subdirectory into a reverse path.

       -d, --dirname
	   Output the directory name of str.

       -b, --basename
	   Output the base name of str.

       -m, --magic
	   Enable advanced magic search for ""perl"" and ""cpp"".

       -p, --path path
	   Search in path. Default is to search in $PATH.

EXAMPLE

	#   shell script
	awk=`shtool path -p "${PATH}:." gawk nawk awk`
	perl=`shtool path -m perl`
	cpp=`shtool path -m cpp`
	revpath=`shtool path -r path/to/subdir`

HISTORY

       The GNU shtool path command was originally written by Ralf S.  Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Apache. It was later taken
       over into GNU shtool.

SEE ALSO

       shtool(1), which(1).

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