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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting taking the end off a path Post 51944 by google on Sunday 6th of June 2004 09:36:19 AM
Old 06-06-2004
use basename to get the file name
and dirname to get the path.

Code:
program=/this/is/the/path/to/my/file.ksh

FILE=$(basename program)
DIR=$(dirname program)

echo $FILE
file.ksh

echo $DIR
/this/is/the/path/to/my

Dont use this code since its better to use built-ins rather than
writing something like this, but, here is a method in Awk to
get the parent directory of a file.


echo $PARENT_PATH | awk ' {
     
              arraySize = split($0, parentPath, "/");
              delete parentPath[arraySize];
    
              for (i in parentPath ) {
               w = w "/" parentPath[i];
  
              }
              print w
            }'


Last edited by google; 06-06-2004 at 10:42 AM..
 

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Variable declarations that also do initialization with '=' are common. Perl also allows you to use operators like '.=', '+=', etc., but it it is more clear to not do so. my $foo .= 'bar'; # same as my $foo = 'bar'; our $foo *= 2; # same as our $foo = 0; my ( $foo, $bar ) += ( 1, 2 ); # same as my ( $foo, $bar ) = ( undef, 2 ); local $Carp::CarpLevel += 1; # same as local $Carp::CarpLevel = 1; state $foo += 2; # adds 2 every time it's encountered Such constructs are usually the result of botched cut-and-paste, and often are bugs. Some produce warnings. CONFIGURATION
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Copyright (c) 2011 Mike O'Regan. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.16.3 20Perl::Critic::Policy::Variables::ProhibitAugmentedAssignmentInDeclaration(3)
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