delete parts of rows & keeping the rows trail

osy45 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-26-04, 01:45

hi,

which vi or whatever command deletes the leading parts of row in a file leaving the tail ?
I have some directory entries in the file and want to extract the filenames only...
something like this
/opt/data/archive/arch_01.dbf
/opt/data1/db21/temp.dbf
/opt/data/archive/old/arch_01.dbf
and the result should be like this
arch_01.dbf
temp.dbf
arch_01.dbf

any help highly appreciated...

aigles · #2 (**permalink**) 03-26-04, 01:59

You can do :

Code:

sed 's!.*/!!' input_file > work_file
mv work_file input_file

# or in one shot

perl -p -i -e 's!.*/!!' input_file

Damian Ibbotson · #3 (**permalink**) 03-26-04, 03:55

...or use basename

Code:

while read line
do
   echo $(basename $line)
done < file > newFile

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