how to change string in shell (and copy file-script)

Question

I usually work with bash, and I know how to do it there

but this script must be added to a

#!/bin/sh

file

Here is what I need to do: in $1 I get a string like "../blo/thisRun.senerio"

I want to copy a file to a dir with "thisRun" name (thisRun extracted from $1), so i try

cp ../../files/customSettings.ini ../logs/thisRun

where "thisRun" is from the $1 input

1) how to get thisRun from thisRun.senerio in sh

2) how to write this script in sh and not bash?

Answer 1

You will be writing in some version of sh thanks to the shebang. Try the following:

newdir=$(basename "$1" | cut -d. -f1)
if [ -d ../logs/${newdir} ]; then
   cp ../../files/customSettings.ini ../logs/${newdir}
else
   echo I do not want to mkdir -p ../logs/${newdir}, maybe something wrong with script
   exit 1
fi