When I copy any file and paste it in console or text editos it is passed as
file:///home/user/path/file
when I pass it to script it is not found
What is the easiest way to convert that to normal linux path or somehow make script support it?
for example
cat file:///home/user/path/file
says
No such file or directory
To remove the file:// prefix from the URL, you can use sed:
echo "file:///home/user/path/file" | sed "s/^file:////g"
What the above does:
file:// in any line that begins with file:// with nothing. This effectively removes file:// from the URL leaving only /home/user/path/fileTo use this from a script you can try the following:
cat $(echo "file:///home/user/path/file" | sed "s/^file:////g")
Now the error message is:
cat: /home/user/path/file: No such file or directory
(Please note that it refers to the correct filename instead of the URL.)
It would be much cleaner to store the converted filename in a shell variable and use it afterwards.
MYFILE=$(echo "file:///home/user/path/file" | sed "s/^file:////g")
cat $MYFILE
