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my problem statement having whole hdfs path may or may not have part* @ end on this.

like: /user/root/daily_file/part* or /user/root/daily_file/p*

i have above string in 1 variable in shell script.

but want remove last part* or p* ever have in between "/" , "*".

my code snippet is:

hdfs_path="/user/root/daily_file/part*" hdfs dfs -test -e $hdfs_path     rc=$?     if [ "$rc" -eq "0" ]         echo -e  "path exist !!! \n"     if 

due path -

i think want this:

var="/user/root/daily_file/part*" echo "${var%/*}" 

if want /user/root/daily_file/, then: newvar="${var%/*}/"