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From: afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: tail of a path in Bourne
Message-ID: <1991May13.130524.5466@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 13 May 91 13:05:24 GMT
Sender: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
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In the C shell if you have a variable z=/a/b/c/d then scho $z:t
will give you just d.
Is there something equally as trivial in the Bourne shell?
Basically I want to be able to get the name of a script out
of $0 without the path. This surely is a wheel that has already
been invented.
-- 
Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
Analyst/Programmer         2121 N. Service Rd.        
phertel@cmc.aes.doe.ca     Dorval,Quebec             
Environment Canada         CANADA           H9P1J3