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Asked: 2026-06-14T10:46:42+00:00

Here is the example SF_Library/example/Platform/Analyses-PLATFORM.part0.xml SF_Library/example/Platform/Models-PLATFORM.part0.xml SF_Library/example/Platform/Models-PLATFORM.car SF_Library/example/Platform/DS-PLATFORM.car I want to grab base path

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Here is the example

SF_Library/example/Platform/Analyses-PLATFORM.part0.xml
SF_Library/example/Platform/Models-PLATFORM.part0.xml
SF_Library/example/Platform/Models-PLATFORM.car
SF_Library/example/Platform/DS-PLATFORM.car

I want to grab base path which is following. 

SF_Library/example/Platform/

Anybody know what regex should i use for it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Regexes ain’t for extracting substrings. Why not use the dirname command?

    $ dirname /home/foo/whatever.txt
/home/foo
$

    If you need it in a variable:

    DIRECTORY=`basename "SF_Library/example/Platform/DS-PLATFORM.car"`
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