remove pattern with sed

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

i want to remove a certain pattern when i type pwd.

pwd will look like this:

..../....../....../Pat_logs/..../....../...../......

the dotted lines are just random directory names,
i want it to remove the "Pat_logs/...../....../....../" part

so for example:

a/b/c/d/Pat_logs/e/f/g

will become:

a/b/c/d/g

thanks!

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I got this... but apparently it does nothing, so I don't think it finds the pattern correctly.

pwd | sed 's/\/PAT_logs\/\(\([:alnum:]+\)\/+\)//'

2

Hi.

PAT_logs is not the same as Pat_logs . Sed like most everything in Unix is case-sensitive.

$ echo a/b/c/d/Pat_logs/e/f/g | sed 's/\/*Pat_logs.*\//\//'
a/b/c/d/g
3

Yes, everything should be PAT_logs, I just typed the post in the wrong case sorry.

4 
pwd | sed 's/\\PAT_logs//'
5

Did you actually test that?

$ echo a/b/c/d/PAT_logs/e/f/g | sed 's/\\PAT_logs//g'
a/b/c/d/PAT_logs/e/f/g
6

oops.. I'm trying to close this thread but don't know how