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Old 04-10-2013
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Hi experts,

In one of our code we have used some command like this.
Code:
name=${name##*/}

Can someone please let me know what exactly it does?

Thanks & Regards,
Sathya V.

Last edited by Franklin52; 04-10-2013 at 07:16 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
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Old 04-10-2013
This
Code:
name="/this/that/there/file.txt"
echo "${name##*/}"

will return file.txt alone
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