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Old 11-07-2009
How to get the last field of a string(pattern)?

b= find =/home/root/dir1/*.xml | xargs grep '</XML>' | cut -d ":" -f1 | uniq

From a folder that has many files, I am trying to get the filename which has </XML> in it using the above command. But while giving the result, the variable b is showing the path also.

Ex: b=/homt/root/dir1/gg.xml.
How can I just get the value gg.xml in b?
The path I am giving as a variable.It is not hardcoded as (/home/root/dir1/*.xml)
Ex: $path/*.xml.So the occurrence of "/" can vary.

I am using KSH.

Thanks,
Floyd

Last edited by asmfloyd; 11-07-2009 at 07:11 PM..
# 2  
Old 11-07-2009
One options:

Code:
b=$(find $MY_PATH -exec grep -l '</XML>' {} \; | xargs -I{} basename {} | uniq -u)

puts all the filenames which match into b.

Not so great if any file names have spaces in them.
# 3  
Old 11-08-2009
Hi Scott,
It does not print anything for me.It just come out of the shell. My filenames are like file1.xml,file2.xml,...
Also I tried echo ${b##*/}. That also does nothing.Bad luck..

Last edited by asmfloyd; 11-08-2009 at 01:47 AM.. Reason: Addition
# 4  
Old 11-08-2009
One way ..
Code:
$ b=/homt/root/dir1/gg.xml
$ echo $b
/homt/root/dir1/gg.xml
$ echo $(basename $b)
gg.xml

# 5  
Old 11-08-2009
You said that the path you wanted to search was in a variable. Did you change $MY_PATH to something meaningful for you?

I did test this before I posted it!

Code:
$ cat file1.xml
<XML>
this is some xml
</XML>

$ cat file2.xml
<XML>
this is some more xml
</XML>

$ MY_PATH=.

$ b=$(find $MY_PATH -exec grep -l '</XML>' {} \; | xargs -I{} basename {} | uniq -u>

# echo $b
file1.xml file2.xml

# 6  
Old 11-08-2009
Thanks friends
 
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