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# 8  
Old 10-29-2008
thanks all these are working fine.
# 9  
Old 10-29-2008
Oh, gosh. I can't believe there are so many answers without this one.
Code:
VAR="/home/samir/datas/data.txt"
NEWVAR="${VAR%/*}"

# 10  
Old 10-29-2008
Thanks, this is working fine.

If "/home/samir/datas/data.txt" is changed like "/home/samir/datas/Construction"
where Construction is a directory then how to extract "/home/samir/datas" from that.
# 11  
Old 10-29-2008
man dirname
# 12  
Old 10-29-2008
This would still work as long as there is no trailing slash. It only looks at the text, not what the text means.
Code:
VAR="/home/samir/datas/Construction"
NEWVAR="${VAR%/*}"
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