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Old 04-23-2012
Printing directory starting from a particular folder
Hi there!Smilie
I have a question if I have a directories
Code:
~/MyFolder/Files/PersonalFiles/databases/food/tomato
~/MyFolder/Files/PersonalFiles/databases/items/cup

and I want my program to output food/tomato and items/cup, i.e. everything from the folder database but without "~/MyFolder/Files/personalFiles/databases/" . Is there are a way to do this i tried to do
Code:
echo sed 's/^.*databases//' -d

but the output is still with ~/MyFolder/ Files etc. Would much appreciate any help!Smilie


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Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-24-2012 at 12:56 AM..
# 2  
Old 04-24-2012
One method using the unix basename and dirname commands.

Code:
filename1="~/MyFolder/Files/PersonalFiles/databases/food/tomato"
var1=$(basename $(dirname "${filename1}"))
var2=$(basename "${filename1}")
echo "$var1/$var2"

filename2="~/MyFolder/Files/PersonalFiles/databases/items/cup"
var3=$(basename $(dirname "${filename2}"))
var4=$(basename "${filename2}")
echo "$var3/$var4"

./scriptname
food/tomato
items/cup

Depending on what Shell you have, there are other pure Shell methods of achieving the desired effect.
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# 3  
Old 04-24-2012
Your sed was almost there:

Code:
echo "~/MyFolder/Files/PersonalFiles/databases/food/tomato"|sed 's/^.*databases\///g'

food/tomato


echo "~/MyFolder/Files/PersonalFiles/databases/items/cup"|sed 's/^.*databases\///g'

items/cup

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# 4  
Old 04-24-2012
Don't forget the obvious:

Code:
( cd ~/MyFolder/Files/PersonalFiles/databases/
        ls food/tomato
        ls items/cup )

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# 5  
Old 04-24-2012
thanks a lot but if I don't know the directory I just know that it is in home directory and it should be in datasheet folder somewhere in home directory how can I do that then???
# 6  
Old 04-24-2012
~/datasheet ?
 
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