[SunHELP] dirname command pipe failure

[Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro]

for awk fans, I think this works also:

echo $1 | awk -F/ '{for(i=2;i<NF;i++){printf "."$i;}}'

Adrian.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jopson, Andy wrote:

> Thought so, thanks for confirming that.
>
> I don't know the sed command, so will this pipe take the extension off the
> filename even if it contains .'s?
>
>
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>
> 'dirname' will not read standard input, it justs takes args on the command
> line.
>
> Try this :
>
> echo $1 | sed 's/\(.*\)\.[^.]*$/\1/g'
>
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> place de Jopson, Andy
> Date:	jeudi 24 juin 2004 10:13
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> Objet:	[SunHELP] dirname command pipe failure
>
> 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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