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Old 12-13-2010
Capturing text & putting it in different variables
Dear friends,
I have following text in a variable.

/backup/rem1/10122010/res

From this value of variable i want to take each text in different variables

e.g.

a=backup
b=rem1
c=10122010
d=res

please guide me to do so.
Thank you in advance
Anushree
# 2  
Old 12-13-2010
One way:
Code:
var="/backup/rem1/10122010/res"

set $(echo $var | sed 's/\// /g')

a=$1
b=$2
c=$3
d=$4

# 3  
Old 12-13-2010
Code:
a=`echo "/backup/rem1/10122010/res" | cut -d"\/" -f2`
b=`echo "/backup/rem1/10122010/res" | cut -d"\/" -f3`
c=`echo "/backup/rem1/10122010/res" | cut -d"\/" -f4`
d=`echo "/backup/rem1/10122010/res" | cut -d"\/" -f5`

R0H0N
# 4  
Old 12-13-2010
Thanks Franklin52.
Solution worked...
Thanx a lot
# 5  
Old 12-13-2010
Just Shell:
Code:
var=/backup/rem1/10122010/res

Code:
IFS=/ read x a b c d <<EOF
$var
EOF

bash|ksh93:
Code:
IFS=/ read x a b c d <<<"$var"

ksh:
Code:
echo "$var" | IFS=/ read x a b c d

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-13-2010 at 01:13 PM..
# 6  
Old 12-13-2010
Similar to Franklin52

Code:
var="/backup/rem1/10122010/res"
echo "${var}" | sed -e "sX/X Xg"|read a b c d
echo "$a"
echo "$b"
echo "$c"
echo "$d"

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