Question

In bash I would like to get filename from a command line string. But not the current ($0) script!

I have a file full of scripts with parameters. I need just the scripts from it!

For example i have a string like:
/path/to/file parameter1 -p2

i would like to get: /path/to/file (without the parameters)
even in cases:

/an\ example/with.dot.in_it/.hidden_file.sh par\ ameter1 p.dot.2
./script.sh p1 p2
../script.sh p1 p2
/any////relative/../path/./to/script.sh p1 p2

So in any valid linux path and filename cases!

Is there a regex for this purpose, or is there any other way to get this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can use perl’s command line regex feature combined with readlink command to always get full path to your script. Let’s data is your file name with all the command and their parameters. You can use script like this to get full path of your scripts:

while read -r F
do
    SCRIPT=$(perl -pe 's/^(.*?)(?<!\\) .*$/\1/;s/\\//g' <<< $F)
    readlink -f "$SCRIPT"
done < data