New Kid on the blog and Linux too---need help

[Good gal]

Can somebody help me with a sript to print the parent directory and sub directory name for a given directory. It should not print the file names inside the directories. I want only the directories name.

[micmast]

you might be able to solve this with simple command line tools

all the subdirs
$> ls -lR | grep ^d

parent folder:
$>pwd
then do some cutting

[Laharl]

To avoid the cutting, you could cd .. before using pwd, as that would give you the exact directory. You'd need to hold the previous directory in a variable so that you could cd back to it, but it would still probably be simpler.

[prn]

Can somebody help me with a sript to print the parent directory and sub directory name for a given directory. It should not print the file names inside the directories. I want only the directories name.

I'm a bit suspicious of the phrase "given directory". How is it "given"? My guess (and this may be entirely wrong) is simply that it means you know the name of a specific directory, e.g. /var/log/mail and you want to parse that into its own name "mail" and its parent's path name "/var/log" Is that what this is about?

If so, then check the commands "basename" and "dirname" as in:

[prn@deimos ~]$ basename /var/log/mail
mail
[prn@deimos ~]$ dirname /var/log/mail
/var/log

If this is not what you're trying to do, please clarify your question.

Best Regards,
Paul