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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting parse a string variable Post 86943 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 18th of October 2005 02:15:31 PM
Old 10-18-2005
It just occurred to me that you must be in a perl script.... try something along these lines
Code:
use Shell qw(basename);
..........
........
$base=basename($file)

 

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ARP2ETHERS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     ARP2ETHERS(8)

NAME

       arp2ethers - convert arpwatch address database to ethers file format

SYNOPSIS

       arp2ethers [ arp.dat file ]

DESCRIPTION

       arp2ethers  converts  the file /var/lib/arpwatch/arp.dat (or the file specified on the command line) into ethers(5) format on stdout.  Usu-
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       ing on its configuration. All of them will be available at /var/lib/arpwatch/.

FILES

       /var/lib/arpwatch - default directory for arp.dat
       arp.dat - ethernet/ip address database

SEE ALSO

       arpwatch(8), ethers(5), rarp(8), arp(8),

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov.

AUTHORS

       Original  version  by  Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group, University of California, Berkeley,
       CA.

       Modified for the Debian Project by Peter Kelemen, with additions from Erik Warmelink.

       The current version is available via anonymous ftp:

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