In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:10:52 -0400, Rich
Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
rsalz> > rsalz> */* ) echo "$I" | sed -e 's@\(.*\)/.*@\1@' ;;
rsalz> >
rsalz> > Why such a complicated sed? 's@/[^/]*$@@' is perfecty sufficient, and
rsalz> > a little bit more efficient :-).
rsalz>
rsalz> Because it makes the implementation of "basename" pretty
rsalz> obvious :)
sed -e 's|^[^/]*/||g'
rsalz> As for efficiency :) here's an implementation that uses all
rsalz> shell builtins ...
Heh, we can probably battle endlessly about efficiency. That was a
pretty good one, and a bit less obscure than the expr variant shown
here.
:-)
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