fast unix question

**UltraSonic** · 08-10-2005, 07:26 AM

Originally posted by Zester

I have this string:

Code:

a = "/home/blackgeer/1022/index.html"

how do I chop off the "index.html" part and only keep the "/home/blackgeer/1022/" part ?

Are you serious?

**tgpmakers** · 08-10-2005, 07:28 AM

if(a=m~{(.*?)index\.html})
print $1;
Providing you using Perl.

**Zester** · 08-10-2005, 07:29 AM

Originally posted by garymayor

if(a=m~{(.*?)index\.html})
print $1;
Providing you using Perl.

no i don't.
this is done in an .SH file

I know how to do this in perl, i'm no sysadmin by the way

**grumpy** · 08-10-2005, 07:39 AM

try an editor

**jerzeemedia** · 08-10-2005, 07:40 AM

a = "/home/blackgeer/1022/index.html"

echo $a|sed 's/index\.html//'

**Radiate** · 08-10-2005, 08:56 AM

format c:

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