> I'm just making my first steps in shell programming.
> I'm sure there must be an easy way to strip the path from
> a filename (as provided by find for example) in order
> to use it as a base for fhurther processing.

You can use sed, but the command to do this is actually "basename":

tempest: -root-
# basename /bin/sh
sh


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