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From: Jason Price <gt5076c@cad.gatech.edu>
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>>From zsh-workers:

(Quoting got screwed up... Sorry...)

Forwarded message:
> > * ${parameter/pattern/string} and ${parameter//pattern/string}
> >   pattern is expanded as per pathname expansion.  [munch]
>
> [munch]
> Maybe it can be done quite simply by upgrading the extra flags Sven
> added for # and % to match internal bits of a parameter's value.

there are a heck of a lot of ${...} modifiers that are wonderfully useful,
but in my searching through the man pages, I havn't found an equivelent to
basename /usr/local/bin/mumble -> mumble.  I need to pull the basename out
of path strings quite offten, and I'd like to do so in shell.

Is this ... (wait, this is zsh) How can I do this?

Jason

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