Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

It's a shell script, not a C program. Unless you're writing a specifically low-level system utility (at which point you could do better by picking a lower level language), meant to be looped hundreds to thousands of times, the difference in using basename and the bash built-in is too small to be

Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

Correct, and the right way i might add on this specific part of the script. You don't call basename often in my experience. Sheepishly, My last e-mail was more of extending more information rather than answering directly the question! -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On Tue, Jun 3, 2008

Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

On 6/3/08, Mark David Dumlao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read somewhere Programs are written to be read by people, and only incidentally be executed by computers. So I've always believed that ${0##*/} = generally bad using bash env variables and basename = generally good Don't discard good

Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

yeah, I dont call basename many times in a script. What I mean is I used basename often in my scripts. Thanks for the responses. With this, I'm exploring now bash brace expansions, shell expansions, etc. etc. I think brace expansions have advantages, say iterating through a non-integer indices.

Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

ugh. Sounds like an ugly snippet i used to write for something. I showed it to someone, he frowned (or I imagine he did, I looked at his face through an internet forum), and told me to just use basename instead. cmd=`basename $0` is more understandable. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:15 PM, fooler

Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

Mark, That is true on the surface, but the answer is it depends. Convoluted internal built-in command shown is way faster especially if this script is going to be called often, rather than executing basename, which is an external command. For a perspective, replacing echo and cat, and using

Re: [plug] ${0##*/}

Thanks all, I've been using basename $0 quite often until this one. Thanks again. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

[plug] ${0##*/}

Hi all, I saw in a script this line: cmd=${0##*/} # Command's basename Echoed the value of cmd and this returns -bash. I cant seem to figure out how this works. _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List