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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: tail of a path in Bourne
Message-ID: <1991May14.175730.15015@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 May 91 17:57:30 GMT
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In article <1991May13.130524.5466@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA () writes:
>In the C shell if you have a variable z=/a/b/c/d then scho $z:t
>will give you just d.

I don't know if all unices have it, but all the ones I work on have
basename (1).



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