Re: basename sucks

[Andreas Schwab]

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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