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cut help needed!!!!!
/home/documents/files/scooter17.dat
I am trying to cut out everything upto scooter17.dat so that it will only print out the scooter17.dat any ideas? great advices will be greatly appreciated. Thank you ********Updated*************** Thank you for the replys. It works!! However, I am trying to do that for all the folders I have, meaning /home/documents/downloads/file1.dat and so on. So is there a way for me to write on script that only prints out the file name(file1.dat) for all the folders I have? Thank you Last edited by scooter17; 08-15-2006 at 07:04 AM. 
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# basename /home/documents/files/scooter17.dat
scooter17.dat
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Using built-ins:
Code:
file=/home/documents/files/scooter17.dat
echo ${file##*/}
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