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Old 11-17-2008
lowercase basedir? get filename
Is there an equivalent of basedir in shell script? I have a file location and I want to lowercase just the filename not the path.
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Old 11-17-2008
Try basename, this will return the filename without the path.
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Old 11-17-2008
Code:
dir=$(dirname /some/path/to/a/file)
result="$dir/$(basename /some/path/to/a/file | tr -s '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )"
echo "$result"

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