how to cut a string from a string

Shell Programming and Scripting
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now I have a string

.a/b/c/done

I want to get "done" from it. That is the result should be "done"

sorry for my language before.

Thanks in advance

2

Hi Henryyy,

One way:

$ str=".a/b/c/done"
$ echo "${str%/*}"
.a/b/c

Regards,
Birei

3

Sorry for my language, I correct the question.
But thank you all the same

4

Then, try:

$ str=".a/b/c/done"
$ echo "${str##*/}"
done

Regards,
Birei

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If you're working with directories and want to strip the filename, try this:

$ basename .a/b/c/done
done
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echo ".a/b/c/done | "awk -F"/" '{print $NF}'

or

echo ".a/b/c/done |  sed 's|.*/\(.*\)|\1|g'