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Old 11-27-2006
Help required using cut command
Hi all,
I have one text as '/home/psv/file/test.ksh'. In that I want to cut the text as '/home/psv/file/' .

Let me know which command to use.

Thanks
Mahalakshmi.A
# 2  
Old 11-27-2006
man dirname
# 3  
Old 03-18-2008
Hi All,
You can try like:

echo "/home/psv/file/test.ksh" | cut -b 01-15
# 4  
Old 03-18-2008
$ dirname "/home/psv/file/test"
/home/psv/file

$ basename "/home/psv/file/test"
test
# 5  
Old 03-18-2008
dirname or substring removal operator ${%}
Code:
str="/home/psv/file/test.ksh"

echo `dirname $str`/
echo "${str%/*}/"

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