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Old 07-09-2011
Deleting all characters before the last occurrence of /
Hi All,

I have a text file with the following text in it:


Code:
file:///About/accessibility.html
file:///About/disclaimer.html
file:///About/disclaimer.html#disclaimer
file:///pubmed?term=%22Dacre%20I%22%5BAuthor%5D
file:///pubmed?term=%22Madigan%20J%22%5BAuthor%5D
http://www.facebook.com/ncbi.nlm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/privacy.html

I want to delete all the text that occurs before the last /. This means, my output should look like this:

Code:
accessibility.html
disclaimer.html
disclaimer.html#disclaimer
pubmed?term=%22Dacre%20I%22%5BAuthor%5D
pubmed?term=%22Madigan%20J%22%5BAuthor%5D
ncbi.nlm
privacy.html

I tried this using two different commands after searching this forum but I think I am making some mistakes:
These are the commands that I issued:

Code:
perl -p -e 's/^.*?//' 1.txt

and

Code:
sed 's/^.*/\/\//' 1.lin

I am using Linux with Bash.
# 2  
Old 07-09-2011
Code:
perl -pe 's!.*/!!' 1.txt

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# 3  
Old 07-09-2011
HI,
Seems its not working. I am getting this error message:

Code:
.: Event not found.

I am trying different ways of solving this now. If I can solve this then I'll post my code.
# 4  
Old 07-09-2011
I think you used double quotes (") instead of single ('). Anyway you can use this code with double quotes:
Code:
perl -pe "s/.*\///" file

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# 5  
Old 07-09-2011
Great it worked.!!!
# 6  
Old 07-09-2011
Code:
awk -F/ '$0=$NF' file

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# 7  
Old 07-09-2011
Using shell builtin properties
Code:
echo "file:///About/accessibility.html
file:///About/disclaimer.html
file:///About/disclaimer.html#disclaimer
file:///pubmed?term=%22Dacre%20I%22%5BAuthor%5D
file:///pubmed?term=%22Madigan%20J%22%5BAuthor%5D
http://www.facebook.com/ncbi.nlm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/privacy.html"  | while read filename
do
        echo "${filename##*/}"
done

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