Shell script: For loop unexpected output

Question

I have a requirement where I have to read the names of the sub directories and copy the names to a file. Following is the code that I have written.

 for file in $HOME/AutoQA/screenshots/*
 do
 if [ -d "$file" ];
     then
        echo "$file" >> $HOME/AutoQA/FailedTestCases.txt
  fi
done

Now the above code works almost perfectly but the output that I get is something like

/home/AutoQA/screenshots/1
/home/AutoQA/screenshots/2
......

But I expect it to be as follows

1
2
....

So I need only the names of the sub directories. Here before running the for loop, I dont want to do

cd /home/AutoQA/screenshots/

How can I manage that? Can anyone help?

If you add a trailing / to your glob, it will expand to directory names only, removing the need for the if statement. — chepner
– chepner, Commented Oct 7, 2013 at 13:45

devnull · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-07 10:29:04Z

2

Replace the line

echo "$file" >> $HOME/AutoQA/FailedTestCases.txt

with

basename "$file" >> $HOME/AutoQA/FailedTestCases.txt

answered Oct 7, 2013 at 10:29

devnull

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