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Old 04-19-2007
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Originally Posted by njoshi
Hi,
Any help on this would be very appreciated.

I capture the full path & filename in a variable like (varFile=/home/user/extfile.txt). Now in my shell script I have to use only the filename part i.e. extfile.txt. How do I extract only the filename part from the variable?

Use shell parameter expansion:


Code:
filename=${varFile##*/}