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[alan147]

Good afternoon

I have a file with rows of text in of the form

xxx/aaaaaaaaa
xxx/bbbbbbbbb

xxx is a directory name and aaaaaaaa is a file. Generally xxx is three characters long but could be longer. I need to be able to extract the directory name and the file name as seperate variables.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

Alan

 

[grega]

This will do it ..

for line in `cat file`
do
dir=`dirname $line`
file=`basename $line`
echo "dir=$dir file=$file"
done

Greg.

 

[PHV]

Another way:
IFS="/$IFS" while read dir file
do echo "dir='$dir', file='$file'"
done </path/to/inputfile

Hope This Help, PH.
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[alan147]

Thanks very much.

Alan