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Re: Removing last directory from path
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Seth David Schoen |
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Re: Removing last directory from path |
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Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:20:29 -0700 |
tolugboji writes:
> On Friday, October 15th, 2021 at 1:29 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson
> <chris@cfajohnson.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, tolugboji via wrote:
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> > > I have a path gmtbin, and would like to remove the /bin at the end.
> > >
> > > gmtbin="/usr/local/bin/gmt/bin"
> >
> > binless=${gmtbin%/bin}
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> Right, I was using ${gmtbin/\/bin/}, which was removing the two /bin.
For directory paths in particular, you could also use dirname. It
removes only the last path component.