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Old 11-12-2012
How to select First two directory in from path name?
Can somebody help me on below question

I have path and i want to select first two directory name in variable how we can do this.

/Myname/xyz/yourname/abc/somebodyname

i want to select /Myname/xyz in variable.

Quick help will be appriciated.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Kumar
# 2  
Old 11-12-2012
Code:
$ var='/Myname/xyz/yourname/abc/somebodyname'

$ echo "$var"|sed -n 's:^\(/[^/]\{1,\}/[^/]\{1,\}\).*:\1:p'
/Myname/xyz

# 3  
Old 11-12-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by elixir_sinari
Code:
$ var='/Myname/xyz/yourname/abc/somebodyname'
 
$ echo "$var"|sed -n 's:^\(/[^/]\{1,\}/[^/]\{1,\}\).*:\1:p'
/Myname/xyz

Dear elixir,
how we can assign the output "/Myname/xyz" to variable.
i am able to print it but not able to assign to variable. its giving error "Var is Directory"
# 4  
Old 11-12-2012
Code:
newvar=$(echo "$var"|sed -n 's:^\(/[^/]\{1,\}/[^/]\{1,\}\).*:\1:p')

This User Gave Thanks to elixir_sinari For This Post:
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# 5  
Old 11-12-2012
with awk..

Code:
var='/Myname/xyz/yourname/abc/somebodyname'

dir_path=$(echo "$var" | awk -F "/" '{print "/"$2"/"$3}')

# 6  
Old 11-12-2012
how to Fetch value from varible
Can somebody help to me to get the required value from below path

./mydata/abc/youdata/xyz/OTHERDATA/zsoddata_testsod_labl_20120111_1.zip

i want to fetch the "testsod" from below path and file name..

Kind Regards,
kumar
# 7  
Old 11-12-2012
Code:
var=$( echo "./mydata/abc/youdata/xyz/OTHERDATA/zsoddata_testsod_labl_20120111_1.zip" | awk -F_ ' { print $2 } ' )
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