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# 8  
Old 07-10-2012
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Originally Posted by elixir_sinari
This should be still faster:

Code:
echo ${MOVE_DIR##*/}

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# 9  
Old 07-10-2012
can you explain to me how the ##*/ works?

does the "/" means the delimiter
# 10  
Old 07-10-2012
Code:
 ${string##substring} Deletes longest match of $substring from front of $string.

Manipulating Strings
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