[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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