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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: file pathname parser
Keywords: file, pathname, parse
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Date: 20 Apr 89 03:57:01 GMT
References: <1970@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <1970@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> czei@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes:
: Does anyone know of a pathname parser, which could pick out
: the name of the file out of the full path?  It seems just
: complicated enough to keep me tied up for several hours,
: and it probably has already been done by others.
:
: Thanks for any pointers.

Look up the `basename' command. On my machine it's a shell script.

(Of course, we're presuming UNIX here....)

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