On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 08:35:24PM -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> example:  /home is directory to backup & assigned to $selection
>         I want Selection to be home (without the /)
>
> I've tried several variations of tr and sed to delete the "/" from the  
> directory name without success.

$ echo "/home/foo" | sed s-^/--
home/foo
$

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