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# 8  
Old 03-28-2012
Code:
# awk -F"/[^A-Za-z0-9]*" '{$2=$NF="";gsub("  | $","");gsub(" ","/")}1' data
DIR2/DIR3
DIR2
DIR2/DIR3/DIR4/DIR5

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Aswex
# 9  
Old 03-28-2012
Thanks ygemici for your help ... problem solved, thanks to all of you ; )
# 10  
Old 03-28-2012
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Originally Posted by Aswex
Thanks ygemici for your help ... problem solved, thanks to all of you ; )
also you can try this Smilie
Code:
# awk '{gsub("^/*/[^/]*/|/[^/]*$","")}1' data
DIR2/DIR3
DIR2
DIR2/DIR3/DIR4/DIR5
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