Linux/Unix - awk question

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awk question

smrkdown

2004-09-09, 7:13 pm

How would I print all but the last field in an argument?

Like if the user input is an absolute path to a file like:

/usr/local/etc/test.conf

The / is the field separator. How would I extract /usr/local/etc/ out of that? I also want to account for the fact that they may enter a shorter or longer path which may contain more than four fields.

Variable

2004-11-16, 11:57 am

why not just use basename or dirname.
man dirname

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