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From: runyan@hpirs.HP.COM (Mark Runyan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Wanted: How to strip off pathnames to obtain filenames.
Message-ID: <4750013@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Sep 88 18:28:32 GMT
References: <5968@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>/ gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner) /  5:50 pm  Sep  5, 1988 /
>If you are using csh, how about:
>
>	% set foo = /usr/john/foo/bar/src/misc/other/bugs/nil.bang
>	% echo ${foo:t}
>	nil.bang
>	%

And, if you are using ksh, how about:

  $ foo=/usr/john/foo/bar/src/misc/other/bugs/nil.bang
  $ echo ${foo##/*/}
  nil.bang
  $


Mark "...Just found that one today..." Runyan