In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 05 Jun 2002 09:43:45 -0400, Rich 
Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

rsalz> Richard Levitte via RT wrote:
rsalz> > Can I assume that sed exists and works properly?  dirname can be 
rsalz> > coded like this:
rsalz> 
rsalz> >    echo $$i | sed -e 's|[^/]*$||' -e 's|/$||'
rsalz> 
rsalz> "dirname foo" returns "." which the above doesn't catch.

Ah, I missed that...

rsalz>          */* ) echo "$I" | sed -e 's@\(.*\)/.*@\1@' ;;

Why such a complicated sed?  's@/[^/]*$@@' is perfecty sufficient, and
a little bit more efficient :-).

rsalz> on the other hand, since you're already requirring perl ...

That was my next option.

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