Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:36:19 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bourne shell programming problem Message-ID: <20020220163619.GA3600@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020219234405.V48401@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020220060104.49523.qmail@web9407.mail.yahoo.com> <20020219234405.V48401@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:44:05PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:01:04PM -0800, Eric Boucher wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm doing a little bourne shell program that makes > > something installed automatically on my FreeBSD. But I > > have a little problem: I want to be able to read every > > caracter of a variable. For example: Suppose I have a > > variale named TOTO and the content of TOTO is > > "/toto/tata/foo". So if I do an echo the ouput is: > > echo $TOTO > > /toto/tata/foo > > > > What I'm trying to do is to catch only "/foo" and put > > it in another variable. So I tought that if someone > > tell me how to read each caracter, I can loop over > > each caracter, remember the positition of the last "/" > > and then take all the caracters after that "/" and put > > it in a variable. > Here is another: echo "/toto/tata/foo" | sed "s;/.*/;/;" Personally I would do it using "basename" in this case, but previous answers show you that method. Amazingly no-one has suggested how to do it in "perl" yet .. it must be a perl-freak holy day :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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