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Old 03-11-2011
I've misread the question, the sed command should be:
Code:
echo "$LOCATION" | sed 's!\(.*\)/.*!\1!'

But have you tried this?
Code:
echo ${LOCATION%/*}

# 9  
Old 03-11-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
I've misread the question, the sed command should be:
Code:
echo "$LOCATION" | sed 's!\(.*\)/.*!\1!'

But have you tried this?
Code:
echo ${LOCATION%/*}


Both are working now, after I logged out and logged in again. Thank you all so much for helping. This was my first post on this site, you guys are great!


now I'm also curious, why that expr index $LOCATION SYSTEM didn't work?

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