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Old 12-09-2009
Remove filename is text file
Hello,

I got files full path in a text file like that

PHP Code:
/main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu7_i386.deb
/main/k/kdelibs-experimental/libknotificationitem-dev_4.3.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
/main/k/kdemultimedia/dragonplayer_4.3.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
/main/k/kdenetwork/kget_4.3.2-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
/main/k/kdenetwork/libkopete-dev_4.3.2-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
/main/k/kdepim/kdepim-strigi-plugins_4.3.2-0ubuntu6_i386.deb 
the out put i want is

PHP Code:
/main/k/kdelibs/
/main/k/kdelibs-experimental/
/main/k/kdemultimedia/
/main/k/kdenetwork/
/main/k/kdenetwork/
/main/k/kdepim/ 
without .deb file name, that will be great if somebody can find solution.

Many thank
# 2  
Old 12-09-2009
bash
Code:
while read line;do echo ${line%/*}/;done < file

# 3  
Old 12-09-2009
Code:
a=$(<"file")
IFS=" "
printf "%s\n" ${@%/*}
unset IFS

# 4  
Old 12-09-2009
hi..
Code:
perl -wln -e 'print $1 if /^(.*\/).*\.deb/'

Regards.
# 5  
Old 12-09-2009
WORKING GREAT, MANY THANKS
# 6  
Old 12-09-2009
if you have dirname command, then you can do this.
Code:
$ dirname  /main/k/kdelibs/kdelibs4c2a_3.5.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu7_i386.deb
/main/k/kdelibs

# 7  
Old 12-09-2009
Or:

sed

Code:
sed 's [^/]*$  ' infile


zsh

Code:
print -l ${(j:/\n:)$(<infile)%/*}/

Perl:

Code:
perl -ple's|[^/]*$||' infile
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