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Old 05-22-2008
Sed-Special character replacement
Hi

I want to replace ./testsed.ksh
with
testsed.ksh

./ is to be removed

scriptnm=`sed -e 's/\.///' $0

does not work

Please help
# 2  
Old 05-22-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by usshell
Hi

I want to replace ./testsed.ksh
with
testsed.ksh

./ is to be removed

scriptnm=`sed -e 's/\.///' $0

does not work

Please help
sed -e 's/\.\///g' $0
# 3  
Old 05-22-2008
Hi

using sed

echo './testsed.ksh' | sed 's#\./##'

using awk

echo './testsed.ksh' | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'

one more

basename ./testsed.ksh

Thanks
Penchal
# 4  
Old 05-22-2008
Code:
$ echo $var
./testsed.ksh
$ echo $var | sed 's:^\./::'
testsed.ksh
$

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