[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Then Mike's suggestion of using the shell directly is the best choice
> for efficiency. No process forks and everything is done internally to
> the shell. It should be quite fast.
>
> dirname - ${foo%/*}
Note that this is not a full replacement. It doesn't correctly handle
names without a directory component.
Andreas.
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