[Leaplist] Re: LUNA: command line question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Ryan Waldron wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> .... is there a way intrinsic to tcsh, bash, or perhaps using awk, to 
>> 'mask' off the 1st n (or last n for that matter) elements of a long 
>> pathname (i.e. go from '/some/darn/long/idiot/moron/path' to either 
>> '/some/darn/long' or /long/idiot/moron/path', for example) ? I have 
>> RTFM a fair amount & it is eluding me .... TIA ....
>
> A simple way is to use cut:
>
> $ echo "/some/really/long/path/that/shouldnt/be/this/long.txt" | cut 
> -f7- -d/
> shouldnt/be/this/long.txt
>
> $ echo "/some/really/long/path/that/shouldnt/be/this/long.txt" |cut 
> -f-6 -d/
> /some/really/long/path/that
>
> Less impressive than sed, but still...
>
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Oooooooo, another nice one, more terse than sed, a bit easier to 
understand. I hate it when my ignorance/forgetfulness are *SO* obvious 
:-) .... Thanks.


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