Question

I am still a junior with the linux shell script and would like help with a certain script.

I would run a sample shell script such as the following from the command line that takes in a directory as an argument:

./script.sh /some_dir/some_exe

How can I parse out the “some_dir” in my shell script?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The dirname command extracts the directory name from a string; so

THEDIR=`basename "$1"`

should do the trick.