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Is there anyway to parse out everything after the STREAM directory? $: OLD_STREAM=readlink $ORACLE_BASE/admin/database1/backup $: echo $OLD_STREAM $: /oradba/app/oracle/acfsmounts/global/STREAM1a/database1/backup I would like it to echo: /oradba/app/oracle/acfsmounts/global/STREAM1a/

etho201
– etho201

2014-05-23 15:13:52 +00:00
Commented May 23, 2014 at 15:13
I'm trying to automate that... For ease of implementation I think I should get it to echo "/oradba/app/oracle/acfsmounts/global/STREAM1a/database1/" The regular expression .*\/database1\/ will achieve this but I need to figure out how to use substrings in Linux to use that regular expression.

etho201
– etho201

2014-05-23 15:40:31 +00:00
Commented May 23, 2014 at 15:40
OLD_STREM=$(echo $(dirname $(dirname $OLDBACKUP)))

Slyx
– Slyx

2014-05-23 15:44:15 +00:00
Commented May 23, 2014 at 15:44

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