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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Wanted: How to strip off pathnames to obtain filenames.
Message-ID: <14660002@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 88 15:03:52 GMT
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Organization: HP System Architecture Lab, Cupertino
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/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / pcl@ihlpf.ATT.COM (pcl) /  4:07 pm  Sep  1, 1988 /
My question is, given a full or partial pathname, how to obtain the
last field (which is the filename) in a straight foward manner.

P. C. Liu		pcl@ihlpf.ATT.COM
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You could use "echo $filename | sed 's/.*\///'", but using basename(1) is
much easier.

   Michael