Copy file path and remove some parts?

[xanis]

I want to copy a file path and remove the first parts of the result. For example, I want to turn this:

/Users/xanis/Dropbox (Work)/Client Projects/BigClient/somefile.jpg

into this:

BigClient/somefile.jpg

I already have an Automator action set up to copy the file path. What I want to do is use regex (or something else) to remove the parts mentioned.

Any suggestions? Is regex the best way or should I just kill myself now?

 

[Kadarin]

Not sure of the "best" way, but how about piping it to awk?

awk -F'/' '{print $(NF-1)"/"$NF}'

Yeah, it's ugly.

 

[TheStu]

I want to copy a file path and remove the first parts of the result. For example, I want to turn this:

/Users/xanis/Dropbox (Work)/Client Projects/BigClient/somefile.jpg

into this:

BigClient/somefile.jpg

I already have an Automator action set up to copy the file path. What I want to do is use regex (or something else) to remove the parts mentioned.

Any suggestions? Is regex the best way or should I just kill myself now?

Automator doesn't have functionality that will do the rest?

 

[xanis]

Not sure of the "best" way, but how about piping it to awk?

awk -F'/' '{print $(NF-1)"/"$NF}'

Yeah, it's ugly.

That (mostly) did the trick, thanks. I was going to try messing with sed/grep but this was a lot easier.

My final question is this: I want to always remove ONLY the first three directories from the path. I'm seeing that in this case, we're manually telling awk to look back a directory (the NF-1 bit).

 

[Childs]

Not sure of the "best" way, but how about piping it to awk?

awk -F'/' '{print $(NF-1)"/"$NF}'

Yeah, it's ugly.

Thats actually pretty good. I didn't know NF was the total number of fields. All the time I have been using awk I have been specifying the field by number ($1, $2, etc).

 

[manly]

can't you rsync with this as the source?
/Users/xanis/Dropbox (Work)/Client Projects/

 

[xanis]

Okay, came up with something that's so far the closest yet.

The file path is a little wonky with parentheses and spaces, so it's having a hard time. Updating the OP with a more accurate sample path, but the most accurate example is:

/Users/xanis/Dropbox (Company Name)/Client Projects/filename.jpg

Running the following:

awk '{print substr($0, index($0,$3))}'

Results in

Name)/Client Projects/filename.jpg

Close, but not quite. I suspect I need to escape the space?

 

[Childs]

It might be easier to use cut:

echo "/Users/xanis/Dropbox (Work)/Client Projects/BigClient/somefile.jpg" | cut -d/ -f5-