topic Using for in Operating System - HP-UX

Using for

Leo The Cat — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:53:55 GMT

Hello

I've to provide a list of filenames with a for command, something like that below.

for file in /su01/upload/* ; do
echo $file;
done

This works perfectly but i'd like to have only the filename not
/su01/upload/filename1
/su01/upload/filename2
....

How to have only
filename1
filename2
...

Bests Regards
Den

Re: Using for

Pete Randall — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:06 GMT

Den

Simple:

cd /su01/upload
for file in *
do
echo $file
done

Pete

Re: Using for

Leo The Cat — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:01:30 GMT

Of course. sorry ! Thanks Pete

Re: Using for

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:01:34 GMT

Hi Den:

You want the basename of the file. YOu can get this with:

# file=/home/den/myfile
# echo $(basename ${file})
myfile

...or more economically using the shell only:

# echo ${file##*/}
myfile

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Using for

Leo The Cat — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:02:01 GMT

Pete answer is .... very good !