Help required using cut command

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all,
I have one text as '/home/psv/file/test.ksh'. In that I want to cut the text as '/home/psv/file/' .

Let me know which command to use.

Thanks
Mahalakshmi.A

2

man dirname

3

Hi All,
You can try like:

echo "/home/psv/file/test.ksh" | cut -b 01-15

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$ dirname "/home/psv/file/test"
/home/psv/file

$ basename "/home/psv/file/test"
test

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dirname or substring removal operator ${%}

str="/home/psv/file/test.ksh"

echo `dirname $str`/
echo "${str%/*}/"