26.10.2022 5:14, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm writing a shell script to feed poudriere testports and I need to get
> <category>/<portname> from ports tree:
>
> `pwd`:
> /home/user/work/freebsd/ports/<category>/<portname>
>
> `pwd | rev | cut -d / -f1,2 | rev` do the trick but it is so uggly!
>
> Is there a shell option to get it?
Naturally, there is.
cwd=$(pwd)
echo ${cd##*/ports/}
This is documented in sh(1) manual page, section "Parameter Expansion".
No need to call external tools.
