Rob Hudson wrote:
Given a variable with something like this in it:
/Volumes/Projects/Testing/Simple_Carbon_App.pkg
I need to extract the base path to get:
/Volumes/Projects/Testing
basename will give you the name of the file, and dirname will give you
the path:
$ basename /Volumes/Projects/Testing/Simple_Carbon_App.pkg
Simple_Carbon_App.pkg
$ dirname /Volumes/Projects/Testing/Simple_Carbon_App.pkg
/Volumes/Projects/Testing
Further, if you give basename an extension to strip, it does that too:
$ basename /Volumes/Projects/Testing/Simple_Carbon_App.pkg .pkg
Simple_Carbon_App
Note that you must include the period, or it includes that in the results.
Russ
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