Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:41:51 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014669712.b2b28f@mired.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> Cc: eric_boucher60@yahoo.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bourne shell programming problem Message-ID: <15476.2575.742300.102885@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <92450904@toto.iv>
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Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> types:
> Personally I would do it using "basename" in this case, but
> previous answers show you that method. Amazingly no-one has
> suggested how to do it in "perl" yet .. it must be a perl-freak
> holy day :)
Nope, someone did it in perl. To provide equal time, here's yet
another one:
guru% FOO="/foo/tata/foo"
guru% python -c "print '/' + '$FOO'.split('/')[-1]"
/foo
Though I agree with Cliff, and would use basename for it.
<mike
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