In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:10:52 -0400, Rich 
Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

rsalz> > rsalz>                 */* ) echo "$I" | sed -e 's@\(.*\)/.*@\1@' ;;
rsalz> > 
rsalz> > Why such a complicated sed?  's@/[^/]*$@@' is perfecty sufficient, and
rsalz> > a little bit more efficient :-).
rsalz> 
rsalz> Because it makes the implementation of "basename" pretty
rsalz> obvious :)

sed -e 's|^[^/]*/||g'

rsalz> As for efficiency :) here's an implementation that uses all
rsalz> shell builtins ...

Heh, we can probably battle endlessly about efficiency.  That was a
pretty good one, and a bit less obscure than the expr variant shown
here.

:-)

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