Shell Programming and Scripting

thanks to anarchie for the tip with double quotes.
Fixes this particular problem nicely.

Do you have another problem for the forum!!!? PS - Glad to help anyway I [we] can.

If you are using KSH try the following. Its really easy to use.

path=`print ${parent%/*}`
filename=`print ${parent##*/}`

echo $path
/foo/bar

echo $filename
thing

In short the code for 'path' will print everything before the last /
The code for 'filename' will print eveything after the last /
It doesnt matter how many sub directories you have in the path name, it will always work.

Try it, Its probably one of my most used pieces of code!

Hope this helps
Helen

hi,

I would need a basename like action (or the '##*/') but probably in combination with awk.

I need it to transform ftp commandfiles from put to get syntax.

If this is the original file :
open 10.1.91.15
user caluwaek xxxxxxx
cd /export/home/caluwaek/ftp
put /export/home/caluwaek/ftp_bestanden/bestand.txt
put /export/home/caluwaek/ftp_bestanden/bestand2.txt bestand2_copy.txt
bye

I use sed to change put in get, as wel as to change the filenames from left to right. Result :
open 10.1.91.15
user caluwaek cindy75
cd /export/home/caluwaek/ftp
get /export/home/caluwaek/ftp_bestanden/bestand.txt
get bestand2_copy.txt /export/home/caluwaek/ftp_bestanden/bestand2.txt
bye

The only thing that remains to do is to drop the paths. Only on the lines which start with get and only if the file is on the right side.

Anybody some advice ?

Thanks!

Kris

If you are already using sed it is easier to do everything in sed (otherwise i would have suggested the variable expansion in the ksh too):

first:

Code:

/^get/ {
          ...command...
          }

issues commands only on lines starting with "get".

second:

Code:

\(\/[^<space>]*\/\)

is the regular expression to match anything between the first and the last "/" character in one "word" (1) and group it.

Hope this helps.

bakunin


(1) "a sequence of nonblank characters separated by blanks", according to an IBM OS/370 manual explaining what a "word" is, ROFL

Code:

$ cat file1
open 10.1.91.15
user caluwaek cindy75
cd /export/home/caluwaek/ftp
put /export/home/caluwaek/ftp_bestanden/bestand.txt
put /export/home/caluwaek/ftp_bestanden/bestand2.txt bestand2_copy.txt
bye

$ awk 'sub(/put/,"get",$1)&&$3{x=$2;$2=$3;$3=x};1' file1 > file2

$ cat file2
open 10.1.91.15
user caluwaek cindy75
cd /export/home/caluwaek/ftp
get /export/home/caluwaek/ftp_bestanden/bestand.txt
get bestand2_copy.txt /export/home/caluwaek/ftp_bestanden/bestand2.txt
bye