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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Wanted: How to strip off pathnames to obtain filenames.
Keywords: Any efficient way to generate "pr filenames" from "usend pathnames"?
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Date: 2 Sep 88 11:20:33 GMT
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In article <5968@ihlpf.ATT.COM> pcl@ihlpf.ATT.COM (pcl) writes:
>My question is, given a full or partial pathname, how to obtain the
>last field (which is the filename) in a straight foward manner.

If you have the 'basename' command, that does what you want.
An example:
	$ FullName=/this/is/just/a/test
	$ basename $FullName
	test
	$ dirname $FullName
	/this/is/just/a