On Dec 15, 2000, Assar Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You don't happen to have one for basename too? :-)
Basename is far simpler:
% echo "$pathname" | sed 's,.*/,,'
For extra credit, you may want to cover DOS pathnames too, but I'll
leave that as an exercise for the reader :-)
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