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June 13th, 2006, 12:37 PM

atowers

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Unix Script

Im using /bin/sh to write a simple script. I need to take a path name and take the filename from it to use as a parameter in a command later on. But I can't seem to find out how.

Ie /opt/something.xml

convert to something.xml

June 13th, 2006, 05:09 PM

Ehlanna

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var=`basename /opt/something.xml`

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June 23rd, 2006, 03:50 AM

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one more,

Code:

filename=`echo "/opt/something.xml" | sed 's/^.*\///'`

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