[mythtv-users] Playing back IFO/VOB files from server.
John Johnson
johnatl at mac.com
Sat Jul 8 21:01:28 UTC 2006
On 08-Jul-2006, at 13:19, Paul Robertson wrote:
> # parse dir and filename and chdir
> pathname=`echo $2 | rev | cut -d'/' -f 2- | rev`
> filename=`echo $2 | rev | cut -d'/' -f 1 | rev`
Paul,
If I might suggest dirname:
dirname '/a/file/name/with/folders/movie.ifo'
/a/file/name/with/folders
pathname=`dirname $2`
filename=`dirname $2`
there is also a basename command available for getting the file's name:
basename '/a/file/name/with/folders/movie.ifo'
movie.ifo
which can also remove an extension, if you want:
basename '/a/file/name/with/folders/movie.ifo' .ifo
movie
HTH!
Regards,
JJ
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