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# 1  
Old 10-27-2010
Find file directory
Hi, I am using the below command for searching the file

Code:
var_SearchFile= find $var_DataSourcePath -name $var_SourceFileName

Output: c:\test\Sample\Testfile.txt

But I need to retrive only the Path that is "c:\test\Sample\"
Last edited by Scott; 10-27-2010 at 04:08 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 10-27-2010
Code:
find $var_DataSourcePath -type d -name $var_SourceDirName

?

Code:
find / -type d -name "Sample"

# 3  
Old 10-27-2010
This is not working and more over I am not able to assign the value to the variable

Code:
var_DataSourcePath=$1
var_SourceFileName=$2
var_SearchFile= `find $var_DataSourcePath -type d -name $var_SourceFileName`
echo "$var_SearchFile"
echo "Search complete"

Output:
Code:
c:/magesh/test/testfile.txt

Expected output is :
Code:
c:/magesh/test/

I am not getting the Search complete msg, any one can please help?
Last edited by Scott; 10-27-2010 at 04:19 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 4  
Old 10-27-2010
Read up on this
Read up on the basename and dirname commands.

The dirname command with show the path portion of the full filename.

Oh and remove the space after the equal sign. You are seeing the output from the find, but due to the space it is not being assigned to your variable.

In the future use code tags around the code for readability in your posts too. It would clearly make the space stand out.
# 5  
Old 10-27-2010
Which are the value are you passing at $1 and $2 ?

Code:
var_SearchFile=`find "${var_DataSourcePath}" -type d -name "${var_SourceFileName}"`

do not use space between the = and the backtick

By the way, it looks like you run cygwin or something like that ... don't know whether it really behaves such as a "real" unix system.


---------- Post updated at 09:23 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:17 PM ----------



Code:
$ ls /users/home/ctsgnb/ts*
/users/home/ctsgnb/tst
$ var=`ls /users/home/ctsgnb/ts*`
$ echo "$var"
/users/home/ctsgnb/tst
$ echo "${var##*/}"
tst
$ echo "${var%/*}"
/users/home/ctsgnb
$ basename $var
tst
$ dirname $var
/users/home/ctsgnb
$

# 6  
Old 10-27-2010
Hi,
if Variable var_SearchFile has output as c:/magesh/test/testfile.txt
try with this or pipe it.

Code:
echo ${var_SearchFile%/*}
c:/magesh/test

# 7  
Old 10-27-2010
Still I am getting the full dirctory name and the file name.
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