Use `dirname`. Example:
find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | while read i
do
dir=`dirname $i`
echo $dir
done
The complementing command is `basename`. `basename` also has some other
interesting features, such as stripping out the file extension. See the
manpage.
-Mark
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Suppose I have a short script as such:
>
> find . -name 'wwwboard.html' -print | while read i
> do
> print $i
> done
>
> how can I pass the name of the directory where $i lurks to another
> variable, such as $dir?
>
>
>
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