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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting parse a string variable Post 86956 by methos on Tuesday 18th of October 2005 04:18:53 PM
Old 10-18-2005
basename worked great! Thanks a ton. After gave me the direction (ie answer) I found that basename is both a PERL and a Unix command.

Thanks again for the quick response.
 

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BASENAME(1)							   User Commands						       BASENAME(1)

NAME
basename - strip directory and suffix from filenames SYNOPSIS
basename NAME [SUFFIX] basename OPTION... NAME... DESCRIPTION
Print NAME with any leading directory components removed. If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, --multiple support multiple arguments and treat each as a NAME -s, --suffix=SUFFIX remove a trailing SUFFIX -z, --zero separate output with NUL rather than newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit EXAMPLES
basename /usr/bin/sort -> "sort" basename include/stdio.h .h -> "stdio" basename -s .h include/stdio.h -> "stdio" basename -a any/str1 any/str2 -> "str1" followed by "str2" GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report basename translation bugs to <http://translationpro- ject.org/team/> AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
dirname(1), readlink(1) The full documentation for basename is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and basename programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'basename invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 BASENAME(1)
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