Remove characters in string of script

[zsfhaergta]

Hi,

I am trying to remove the ../ in front of a directory and replace it with only the filename. How do I do this?

I have:
X==../../filename

I want
X==filename

Thanks

 

[motoslide]

Have you tried using the "basename" command?

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[zsfhaergta]

Thanks,
As you can see I haven't done very much script programming. Now what if filename were instead a directory?

X==../../directory
to
X==directory

 

[p5wizard]

basename doesn't care what the "basename" in the end means, it just strips off all leading directory names:

[tt]
X==../../filename
X=$(basename $X) # X will now contain "filename"

X==../../dirname
X=$(basename $X) # X will now contain "dirname"
[/tt]


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[columb]

I'm not suggesting that you use it in this case but, for completeness, if you're using ksh, then you can use

longname=../path/to/file_or_dir
shortname=${longname##*/} # shortname is longname with everything up to the last / removed from the left
echo $shortname
file_or_dir

There's a good FAQ here


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[zsfhaergta]

Got it..thanks...heh I spent a long time trying to figure out how to manipulate the string without realizing there was a command to do it already...life of a programmer i guess