Question:
I am interested in writing a shell script that will work in both
Bourne and korn shells that will parse out the
filename from the directory path. In other words, I would like to
perform the following function:
/xxx = /usr/john/data.fil
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Response:
You can use the basename command to retrieve the filename from
a path. (The dirname command will retrieve the directory from
a path.) For example:
basename /usr/john/data.fil
will return "data.fil."
It is also possible to use awk to retrieve the filename.
For example:
echo "/usr/john/data.fil"/awk '(FS=/";print $NF)'
will also retrun "data.fil"
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This item was created from library item Q609805 2VZQQ
Additional search words:
AWK BASENAME CUSTORG DCF DIRECTORY DIRNAME DISSECT FILENAME IRQ
IRQ6000 IX OCT92 OZNEW PATH SCRIPT SHELL STATE2 WRITE WRITER WRITING
2VZQQ
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000027265 ITEM: RTA000027265
Dated: 01/1995 Category: IRQ6000
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