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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to get the directory name from a path using csh? Post 302609037 by ygemici on Monday 19th of March 2012 08:11:18 AM
Old 03-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by vdhingra123
hi,
Can you explane me how this command is working?
echo $path | awk -F\/ '{print $(NF-2), $(NF-1)}'

How can i store them in two different variables?
NF is the mean "The Number of Fields" in the current input record.
check this..
Code:
# echo $pathx|awk -F"/" '{print NF}'
10
total fields count is 10

So while your FS --> '/'
your $2--> home
your $5--> bad_BAD
$NF = $10 --> work (last element)
Code:
# set pathx="/home/abs/cad/bad_BAD/vdhingra/testcases/ABC/924/work"
set b=`echo $pathx | awk -F\/ '{print $(NF-2)}'`  # 8.the element
set c=`echo $pathx | awk -F\/ '{print $(NF-1)}'`   # 9.the element
# echo $b $c
ABC 924

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