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Re: basename sucks
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: basename sucks |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:18:25 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:
> Then Mike's suggestion of using the shell directly is the best choice
> for efficiency. No process forks and everything is done internally to
> the shell. It should be quite fast.
>
> dirname - ${foo%/*}
Note that this is not a full replacement. It doesn't correctly handle
names without a directory component.
Andreas.
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