This is a line in the shell script i am writing. So the $1 argument is the path to the tar file that i pass, for example "./UnixScript.sh /var/tmp/asirohi/j564redist.tar.gz"
I want to store "/var/tmp/asirohi" in a variable, this value can change. it is one directory up from the first argument passed. If is argument is:-
/var/tmp/asirohi/j564redist.tar.gz then /var/tmp/asirohi
/net/lockbox/vol/homes/j564redist.tar.gz then /net/lockbox/vol/homes/
Thanks
Aditya
#!/bin/sh
PATH_TO_TAR=`echo $1`
echo $PATH_TO_TAR