split string with a certain character to form a path

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split string with a certain character to form a path

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I have a string abc_d_e75_f10_xyz_l_11 I want to split it so that I want to construct a string of an existing directory from this string to cd to it.

So in this example abc_d_e75_f10_xyz_l_11 I want to split using the _ character where I want to write this command cd /home/userA/abc/d_e75_f10 and neglect the rest of the string.

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You can do:

echo "abc_d_e75_f10_xyz_l_11" | sed 's/_///' | cut -d "_" -f1-3

This will replace the first _ with / as well as trim the string.

Output:

abc/d_e75_f10

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