[SunHELP] dirname command pipe failure

[Jopson, Andy]

Aaah, ok thanks. This assumes that there are no .'s in the filename though,
but I can put the transformations in the pipe. I never thought of using
nawk, thanks for taking me in a new direction!

 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Predrag Zecevic - Solaris System Administrator
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Sent: 24 June 2004 09:34
To: The SunHELP List
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] dirname command pipe failure


Hi,

you can do this with
    echo `basename $1` | nawk -F"." '{print $1}'
;-)

Jopson, Andy wrote:

>Does anybody know why I can't write the following code as a pipe?
>
>	temp=`echo $1 | tr '.' '/'`
>	temp=`dirname $temp`
>	echo $temp | tr '/' '.'
>
>Like this:  echo $1 | tr '.' '/'` | dirname | tr '/' '.'
>
>It just returns a . rather than the body of a filename (I wrote the code to
>get whatever comes before the final dot in a filename i.e. it separates the
>filename from it's extension). It appears that dirname (or basename for
that
>matter) doesn't function in a pipe command.
>
>Thanks,
>____________________________________________
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>Thermotek Ltd
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