Thank You. I don't think I have ever even heard of that one before.
I was playing around with sed more since I first sent to the list and
figured out how to replace all of the "/" characters.
----------------
#!/bin/sh
DIRSTOBACKUP= "/usr/local/bin
/etc
/home/steve
/usr/local/src"
For name in ${DIRSTOBACKU[@]}
do
NEWNAME=`echo $name | sed s:/:_:g`
NEWNAME=`echo $NEWNAME | sed s:_::`
echo $NEWNAME
done
------------
That would give me the output of:
etc
home_steve
usr_local_src
And from there I can easily work with that. So I can now have my scripts
either use basename or sed to do what I need depending on how the boss wants
the file name.
Thanks to all.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kristoffer Knigga
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:13 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: script problem
>
> 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
>
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