Have you tried `basename` ? -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steven Buehler Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:57 AM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: script problem I have a backup script that I wrote. In it I have a variable that has listings of directories to back up. Because of some of the sizes of the directories, and for other reasons, they now want me to break them where I back them up into multiple files with the name of the directory instead of all in one file. It would be simple except that I can't find how to get just the final directory name for each directory. Example: DIRSTOBACKUP= "/usr/local/bin /etc /home/steve /usr/local/src" I can read thru each line of the variable, but unless I use the "split" function and assign each item in the split, I can't get the last name of the directory. How can this be accomplished? I guess it might be easier to find a way to just chop off the first "/" and then replace the rest with "_" and use that as the backup file name. That way they can also look at the file name and see what directory it came from if I am able to replace the "/" characters. But alas, I am not that great at the regular expression replacement in a string either. I have tried: DIRSTOBACKUP= "/usr/local/bin /etc /home/steve /usr/local/src" for name in ${DIRSTOBACKUP[@]} do NEWNAME=sed "s/\//_/g" < $name echo $NEWNAME done But that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Thanks Steve -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
