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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 06-13-2008

how to retrieve base name of the file

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(to ripat) you are correct

My earlier solution would only work with the example file structure. SO, how about the following:

> cat another_shift
A=/bb/data/f233pdb
fldb=$(echo $A | tr "/" "\n" | wc -l)
flda=$((fldb-1))...

Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 06-13-2008

how to retrieve base name of the file

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Another approach

> A=/bb/data/f233pdb
> B=$(echo "$A" | cut -d"/" -f4)
> C=$(echo "$A" | cut -d"/" -f1-3)"/"

> echo $A
/bb/data/f233pdb
> echo $B
f233pdb
> echo $C
/bb/data/

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