Re: sh: getting <category>/<portname> from pwd

In reply to: Nuno Teixeira : "sh: getting <category>/<portname> from pwd"
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From: Pau Amma <pauamma_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:10:09 UTC

On 2022-10-25 22:14, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> I'm writing a shell script to feed poudriere testports and I need to 
> get
> <category>/<portname> from ports tree:
> 
> `pwd`:
> /home/user/work/freebsd/ports/<category>/<portname>
> 
> `pwd | rev | cut -d / -f1,2 | rev` do the trick but it is so uggly!
> 
> Is there a shell option to get it?

I'd use basename(1) and dirname(1).

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