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From: Paul Lew <lew@ezdzit.zko.dec.com>
To: Jason Price <gt5076c@cad.gatech.edu>
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Notes on bash(1)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 12:44:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812091744.AA25994@ezdzit.zko.dec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812091619.LAA15213@gypsy.cad.gatech.edu>

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Price <gt5076c@cad.gatech.edu> writes:

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

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

$ foo=/usr/local/bin/zsh-3.1.5
$ echo $foo:h		-- head
/usr/local/bin

$ echo $foo:t		-- tail
zsh-3.1.5

$ echo $foo:r		-- root
/usr/local/bin/zsh-3.1

$ echo $foo:e		-- extension
5

Just like csh can do.

					-- Paul  12/09/98  12:43 PM --


  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-12-09 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-09 16:19 Jason Price
1998-12-09 16:38 ` Michael Barnes
1998-12-09 17:17 ` Swen Thuemmler
1998-12-09 17:23 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-12-09 17:44 ` Paul Lew [this message]
1998-12-10 10:45 ` Bruce Stephens

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