Shell Programming and Scripting

String example:

/vmfs/volumes/46000471-71d7c414-8f74-0013210cddc3/gistst/gistst.vmx

What I would like to do is create a variable and save gistst in it.


I thought if I could create an array and split it by '/'

then I could use the 4th array element or if they was a way to do a substring porocess.

Thing is I do not know any unix shell scripting. I've been able to get most of my script to work but I'm having trouble with this.

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks

Code:

var=$( echo "/vmfs/volumes/46000471-71d7c414-8f74-0013210cddc3/gistst/gistst.vmx" | cut -d"/" -f5 )

Code:

$ y="/vmfs/volumes/46000471-71d7c414-8f74-0013210cddc3/gistst/gistst.vmx"
$ x=${y%/*}
$ mm=${x##*/}
$ echo $mm
gistst

Code:

x="/vmfs/volumes/46000471-71d7c414-8f74-0013210cddc3/gistst/gistst.vmx"
a=$( echo $x | sed 's/\(.*\)\/\(.*\)\/\(.*$\)/\2/' )
echo $a

I got this message back when I tried your example,

cut: you must specify a list of bytes, characters, or fields
Try `cut --help' for more information.
test.sh: line 2: -d/: No such file or directory


Thanks

Your example worked like a charm. Thanks a million!

Can you show test.sh?

Code:

x=` echo '/vmfs/volumes/46000471-71d7c414-8f74-0013210cddc3/gistst/gistst.vmx'|awk -F"/" '{print $5}'`
echo $x