sed to explode a full path

[DannyMc]

Hi,

i am quite new to sed and i wonder if there is anyway for me to explode the full path and take the last variable as the string ???

/home/root/usr2/testdir1 --> so i can take testdir1
/home/root/usr2/testdir3

i need to write a script to tar and gzip a list of directory. please help, i am just lacking of sed part.

thanks!

[ashitpro]

Hi,

i am quite new to sed and i wonder if there is anyway for me to explode the full path and take the last variable as the string ???

/home/root/usr2/testdir1 --> so i can take testdir1
/home/root/usr2/testdir3

i need to write a script to tar and gzip a list of directory. please help, i am just lacking of sed part.

thanks!

I tried this:

echo /home/root/usr2/testdir1 | sed 's:.*/::'

Regards,
Ash

[sumittyagi]

why don't you just use basename and dirname commands.

basename /home/root/usr2/testdir1
testdir1

dirname /home/root/usr2/testdir1
/home/root/usr2