Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,

I searched the forums and didn't see a situation like this:

I cannot figure out how to parse out just the file name from the full path. The path looks like this:

\\foo\bar\filename.ext

I don't think something like 'cut' will work so I tried to whip up a regex but couldn't get it quite right. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

try basename

Try:

Code:

sed 's/.*\\//'

or

Code:

${var##*\\}

Code:

$ echo '\\foo\bar\filename.ext' | sed 's/.*\\//'
filename.ext

Code:

$ var='\\foo\bar\filename.ext'
$ echo "${var##*\\}"
filename.ext

The first is more suited for filtering stdin or files, the second is more suited for single strings..

Thanks for the quick feedback. How would I parse out everything BUT the file name? In other words, how can I parse our just the folder path?

Thanks Corona, that index will prove useful someday. Let me run this scenario by you guys and maybe I can get a more elegant solution than what I've been rolling with thus far.

I want to create a script that will parse out a specific string (UNC or regular folder paths) from a Robocopy log. The string searching, parsing and de-duping has all been taken care of with this one liner:

Code:

grep "ERROR 5" $1 |colrm 1 54 |uniq |tr -d '\r' >$1.tmp

colrm removes all the junk I don't need up to the beggining of the path. Uniq de-dupes it because I have Robocopy set to retry so I generally have 2 of the same error and tr cleans up the carriage returns (if there are any) so sed can work on the strings later.

What I am left with is a file containing 1 string per line: \\foo\bar\filename.ext

The end goal is to have the folder path and file name seperated into either temprary files or into seperate array's so that I can drop them into a new robocopy batch file with the following format:

Code:

RCXP026.exe  <path>  <destination>  <filename.ext> /R:1 /W:10 /TEE /Log+:”<Report Path with File Name>

The only other piece to the puzzle is to make sure each path and file name is wrapped in quotes. To this point I have everything figured out except for separating the folder and file name.

Thanks again for your time and consideration.

Code:

LINE="\\foo\bar\filename.ext"
FILE="${LINE##*\\}"
FOLDER= "${LINE%\\*}"