Shell Programming and Scripting

On a Sun OS don't use /bin/sh; use bash, ksh or whatever POSIX shell is on the machine (perhaps in /usr/xpg4/bin).

var=http://machine1:8080/aaa/bbb
dir=/${var#*//*/}

cfajohnson, unfortunately the decision is not mine. I have to stick with whatever shell script that was previously developed. We have used a lot of Bourne shell.

Both of the following codes work perfectly. Thanks a million.

echo $x |sed 's/\(.*\):[0-9]\{1,4\}\(.*\)/\2/'
echo $x |sed 's/.*:[0-9]*//'

Thanks to dennis for the detailed explanation. It helps a lot.

The code of "echo $x |sed 's/.*:[0-9]*//'" is good that I don't have to worry about the number of digits for port number.