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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script Explanation Post 302430725 by a_programmer on Friday 18th of June 2010 12:56:43 PM
Old 06-18-2010
Its called KSH Variable substitution. There are a lot of things that you can do with it. Some of the most common uses are to strip out file extensions, get directory/file names from paths etc.

Code:
> path=/home/test/data/xyz.zip
> file=${path##*/}     # Strip out everything from the left of 'path' till the last '/'
> dir=${path%/*}        # Strip out the file name
> filename=${file%.*}
> fileext=${file##*.}
> echo $dir, $file, $filename, $fileext
/home/test/data, xyz.zip, xyz, zip

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CPANPLUS::Shell(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					CPANPLUS::Shell(3)

NAME
CPANPLUS::Shell - base class for CPANPLUS shells SYNOPSIS
use CPANPLUS::Shell; # load the shell indicated by your # config -- defaults to # CPANPLUS::Shell::Default use CPANPLUS::Shell qw[Classic] # load CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic; my $ui = CPANPLUS::Shell->new(); my $name = $ui->which; # Find out what shell you loaded $ui->shell; # run the ui shell DESCRIPTION
This module is the generic loading (and base class) for all "CPANPLUS" shells. Through this module you can load any installed "CPANPLUS" shell. Just about all the functionality is provided by the shell that you have loaded, and not by this class (which merely functions as a generic loading class), so please consult the documentation of your shell of choice. BUG REPORTS
Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>. AUTHOR
This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. COPYRIGHT
The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic, cpanp perl v5.16.3 2013-05-20 CPANPLUS::Shell(3)
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