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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed/awk for extracting directory from file path Post 302546700 by sarbjit on Friday 12th of August 2011 12:22:20 AM
Old 08-12-2011
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Originally Posted by dude2cool
If you don't mind, please post the sample output you desire. Would help us understand a little better.
I want "somedir" as output from this file path keeping in mind that this file path is variable but somedir will always comes after "prac" directory.
 

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OPARCHIVE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      OPARCHIVE(1)

NAME
oparchive - produce archive of oprofile data for offline analysis SYNOPSIS
oparchive [ options ] [profile specification] -o [directory] DESCRIPTION
oparchive generates a directory populated with executable, debug, and oprofile sample files. This directory can be move to another machine via tar and analyzed without further use of the data collection machine. See oprofile(1) for how to write profile specifications. OPTIONS
--help / -? / --usage Show help message. --version / -v Show version. --verbose / -V [options] Give verbose debugging output. --session-dir=dir_path Use sample database out of directory dir_path instead of the default location (/var/lib/oprofile). --image-path / -p [paths] Comma-separated list of additional paths to search for binaries. This is needed to find modules in kernels 2.6 and upwards. --root / -R [path] A path to a filesystem to search for additional binaries. --output-directory / -o [directory] Output to the given directory. There is no default. This must be specified. --exclude-dependent / -x Do not include application-specific images for libraries, kernel modules and the kernel. This option only makes sense if the profile session used --separate. --list-files / -l Only list the files that would be archived, don't copy them. ENVIRONMENT
No special environment variables are recognised by oparchive. FILES
/var/lib/oprofile/samples/ The location of the generated sample files. VERSION
This man page is current for oprofile-0.9.6. SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/oprofile/, oprofile(1) 4th Berkeley Distribution Tue 06 July 2010 OPARCHIVE(1)
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