bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) (04/20/89)
In article <1970@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> czei@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Czeiszperger) writes:
: Does anyone know of a pathname parser, which could pick out
: the name of the file out of the full path? It seems just
: complicated enough to keep me tied up for several hours,
: and it probably has already been done by others.
:
: Thanks for any pointers.
Look up the `basename' command. On my machine it's a shell script.
(Of course, we're presuming UNIX here....)
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