i was attempting to extract a directory path that was passed from a parameter with this code
it does not work when the parameter passed has wild card on it.
for example
it works when not using a wild card (expanded file)
please help thank you.
Im trying to extract a directory from a path entered by the user
Lets say the path is
path=/home/bliss/files/myfile.txt
i wanna extract "/home/bliss/files" from $path ... how can i do this? (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a environmental variables,
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/ORCL/db/tech/10.2.0
ORACLE_SID=ORCL
Now I need to create a variable and need to extract some part from ORACLE_HOME. I need to get the path from ORACLE_HOME till ORACLE_SID as /u01/oracle/ORCL. I may need to check also... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Could anyone help me in writing a single line code by either using (sed, awk, perl or whatever) to extract a specific path from the PATH environment variable?
for eg: suppose the PATH is being set as follows
PATH=/usr/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/java:/usr/bin/perl3.4
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a function getparam() which takes parameter name as input and parameter value as output.
I have a strting like this,
abcd#paramname1#efgh#paramname2#ijklmnopq
Above one is my input,
The strting enclosed in # are the parameter names.
Here question is, I have to get the... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file abcd.txt which has contents in the form of full path file names i.e.
$home> vi abcd.txt
/a/b/c/r1.txt
/q/w/e/r2.txt
/z/x/c/r3.txt
Now I want to retrieve only the directory path name for each row
i.e
/a/b/c/
/q/w/e/
How to get the same through shell script?... (7 Replies)
My input is as below :
/splunk/scrubbed/rebate/IFIND.REBTE.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/rebate/IFIND.REBTE.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/loyal/IFIND.HELLO.WROC.txt
/splunk/scrubbed/triumph/ifind.triumph.txt
From the above input I want to extract the file names only .
Basically I want to... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am creating a file with all the source folders included in my git branch, when i grep for the used source, i found source included as relative path instead of absolute path, how can convert relative path to absolute path without changing directory to that folder and using readlink -f ? ... (4 Replies)