Re: basename sucks

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 01 February 2007, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> dirname -- sed 's;[^/]*$;;'
> basename -- sed 's;.*/;;'

and even these can be done in shell
dirname - ${foo%/*}
basename - ${foo##*/}

but you're now assuming that the path separator is always '/' ...
-mike

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