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Old 03-23-2009
retrieve part of file path
Hi
I am trying to use sed to retrieve part of my html file's path. I am having a hard time getting what I want. Could someone give me some help?

I want to retrieve the section after html and before the file name
For example if I have the following,
/home/folder1/html/home/house/Home.html@@/main/

What do I need to do to get
home/house

I have tried
Code:
echo /home/folder1/html/home/house/Home.html@@/main/ | sed 's/.*\/html\/\*.*\.html\).*\/1/'

but I can't remove the file name.

Any help will be greatly appreciated
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-23-2009 at 05:24 AM.. Reason: adding code tags
# 2  
Old 03-23-2009
Code:
echo "/home/folder1/html/home/house/Home.html@@/main/" | sed 's/\(.*\/html\)\(.*\/\)\(.*\/\)\(.*@\/.*\/\)/\2\3/'

Last edited by Franklin52; 03-23-2009 at 05:22 AM.. Reason: adding code tags
# 3  
Old 03-23-2009
Code:
echo "/home/folder1/html/home/house/Home.html@@/main/" | awk -F / '{ printf ("%s/%s",$5,$6)}'

Last edited by Franklin52; 03-23-2009 at 05:23 AM.. Reason: adding code tags
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Old 03-23-2009
Another sed solution, after ".*html/" it selects the words without a slash, 1 slash and the words before the next slash, unindepend of the length and the construction of the path:

Code:
sed 's!.*/html/\([^/]*\)\(/[^/]*\).*!\1\2!'

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