[comp.unix.shell] tail of a path in Bourne

afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (05/13/91)

In the C shell if you have a variable z=/a/b/c/d then scho $z:t
will give you just d.
Is there something equally as trivial in the Bourne shell?
Basically I want to be able to get the name of a script out
of $0 without the path. This surely is a wheel that has already
been invented.
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dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) (05/15/91)

In article <1991May13.130524.5466@cid.aes.doe.CA> afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA () writes:
>In the C shell if you have a variable z=/a/b/c/d then scho $z:t
>will give you just d.

I don't know if all unices have it, but all the ones I work on have
basename (1).



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