Unix shell scripting help

vignesh53 · February 20, 2012, 12:04pm

Hi ,

I am beginner in Unix. I have a string /aa/bb/cc/dd. I want to extract the sub string /aa/bb/cc from this . How do i do that in bash?

zaxxon · February 20, 2012, 12:11pm

zaxxon@saburac ~
$ VAR=/aa/bb/cc/dd

zaxxon@saburac ~
$ echo ${VAR%/*}
/aa/bb/cc