how to manipulate strings with shell-script

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This is what I used:

for i in `find some -type f -name *.class`

I got:

some/folder/subOne/fileOne.class
some/folder/subOne/fileTwo.class
some/other/sub/file.class

next, I would like to get rid of the "some/" for each value of $i. What command can I use? Do I HAVE to save them into a file first?

Thanks

Nelson · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-29 21:02:42Z

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$ i=some/other/sub/file.class
$ echo ${i#some/}
other/sub/file.class

Bash has simple string manipulation built in. See also ${i%.class} and the basename and dirname commands.

answered Jul 29, 2009 at 21:02

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Al. · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-29 21:02:02Z

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awk :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK

EDIT: Oh and you can pipe commands together, so the output of the first command acts as the input for the second. Like 'cat example.txt | less' will output the file through a paginator.

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