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Old 07-18-2008
How to parse a pathname in csh?
I am wondering if there's an easy way to extract individual directories from a pathname in a csh script. For example, if I have a shell variable such as
 set datadirlist = /space/quimby/1

can I get 'space', 'quimby', and '1' and assign it individually to another variable?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Sam


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Old 07-18-2008
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Originally Posted by same1290
I am wondering if there's an easy way to extract individual directories from a pathname in a csh script. For example, if I have a shell variable such as
 set datadirlist = /space/quimby/1

can I get 'space', 'quimby', and '1' and assign it individually to another variable?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Sam


Try this: set datadirlist = /space/quimby/1; echo $datadirlist | awk -F/ '{print $2"\n" $3"\n" $4"\n"}'.
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Old 07-21-2008
How to parse a pathname in csh?
Thank you very much. That works perfectly, exactly what I need. (I should learn awk one of these days.)

>> Originally Posted by same1290 View Post
>> I am wondering if there's an easy way to extract individual directories from >> a pathname in a csh script. For example, if I have a shell variable such as
>> set datadirlist = /space/quimby/1
>>
>> can I get 'space', 'quimby', and '1' and assign it individually to another variable?
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Sam


> Try this: set datadirlist = /space/quimby/1; echo $datadirlist | awk -F/ '{print $2"\n" $3"\n" $4"\n"}'.
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