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From the line

/mnt/sampleserver/test_1/myfile.pdf

in my text file I want to remove

/mnt/sampleserver/test_1/

Please suggest me how to do it using linux commands.

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  • Use basename Commented Jun 12, 2013 at 8:42

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Use the 'basename' command. Something like this: basename /mnt/sampleserver/test_1/myfile.pdf

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basename will give myfile.pdf
@fedorqui yeah, the OP says “remove”, not “extract”.
Yes - he wanted to remove /mnt/sampleserver/test_1/
Oooops my fault, sorry I understood it the other way round.
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Several ways:

file="/mnt/sampleserver/test_1/myfile.pdf"

$ echo ${file##*/}
myfile.pdf

$ echo $file | cut -d/ -f5
myfile.pdf

$ echo $file | awk -F/ '{print $5}'
myfile.pdf
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You can use any text processing tool, for example, sed:

% echo "/mnt/sampleserver/test_1/myfile.pdf" | sed -e 's|/mnt/sampleserver/test_1/||'
myfile.pdf
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Following should get you going. (Note the "\" for escape character)

/bin/sed -i "s//mnt/sampleserver/test_1///"

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/bin/sed -i "s/\/mnt\/sampleserver\/test_1\////" file_name

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