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Old 04-19-2007
Extracting Filename from Fullpath
Hi,
Any help on this would be very appreciated.

I capture the full path & filename in a variable like (varFile=/home/user/extfile.txt). Now in my shell script I have to use only the filename part i.e. extfile.txt. How do I extract only the filename part from the variable?

Thanks in Advance.
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Old 04-19-2007
see basename or dirname
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Old 04-19-2007
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Originally Posted by njoshi
Hi,
Any help on this would be very appreciated.

I capture the full path & filename in a variable like (varFile=/home/user/extfile.txt). Now in my shell script I have to use only the filename part i.e. extfile.txt. How do I extract only the filename part from the variable?

Use shell parameter expansion:

Code:
filename=${varFile##*/}

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Old 04-19-2007
Thanks a lot. That helps.
 
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