Hi,

I have the following string,
'/app/eclipse/2.1.3/eclipse' and need the following
substring 'eclipse/2.1.3'

Any hints on how I can do this?

BR

//Mikael

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In article <408D102C.48FC985F@era.ericsson.se>,
Petterson Mikael  <mikael.petterson@nospam.se> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have the following string,
>'/app/eclipse/2.1.3/eclipse' and need the following
>substring 'eclipse/2.1.3'
>
>Any hints on how I can do this?

dirname $string | sed 's:/[a-z]*/:: ; s:.*:'&':'

untested


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Petterson Mikael <mikael.petterson@era.ericsson.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following string,
> '/app/eclipse/2.1.3/eclipse' and need the following
> substring 'eclipse/2.1.3'
>
> Any hints on how I can do this?
>
> BR
>
> //Mikael

man cut		--> -d -f
man awk		--> FS
man bash ksh	--> ${...#...}, ${...%...}

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Petterson Mikael <mikael.petterson@era.ericsson.se> writes:

> I have the following string,
> '/app/eclipse/2.1.3/eclipse' and need the following
> substring 'eclipse/2.1.3'
>
> Any hints on how I can do this?

If your shell supports the syntax:

$ x=/app/eclipse/2.1.3/eclipse
$ y=${x%/*}
$ echo ${y#/*/}
eclipse/2.1.3

Joe
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Petterson Mikael <mikael.petterson@era.ericsson.se> wrote in message news:<408D102C.48FC985F
@era.ericsson.se>...
> Hi,
>
> I have the following string,
> '/app/eclipse/2.1.3/eclipse' and need the following
> substring 'eclipse/2.1.3'
>
> Any hints on how I can do this?
>
> BR
>
> //Mikael

expr "X$string" : 'X/[a-z]*/\(.*\)/.*'

or,

sed -e 's:^/[^/]\{1,\}/\(.*\)/.*:\1:' <<[EOF]
$string
[EOF]

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