From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Jason Price <gt5076c@cad.gatech.edu>, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Notes on bash(1)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 09:23:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <981209092342.ZM11340@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812091619.LAA15213@gypsy.cad.gatech.edu>
On Dec 9, 11:19am, Jason Price wrote:
} Subject: Re: Notes on bash(1)
}
} 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?
${${anything::=/usr/local/bin/mumble}:t}
where "anything" is any variable name whose value you don't mind replacing
with the string "/usr/local/bin/mumble". E.g.:
zsh% echo ${${filename::=/usr/local/bin/mumble}:t}
mumble
zsh% echo $filename
/usr/local/bin/mumble
zsh%
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-09 17:30 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 [this message]
1998-12-09 17:44 ` Paul Lew
1998-12-10 10:45 ` Bruce Stephens
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