From: Swen Thuemmler <swen@uni-paderborn.de>
To: Jason Price <gt5076c@cad.gatech.edu>
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Notes on bash(1)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:17:51 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9812091815400.14354-100000@kreta> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812091619.LAA15213@gypsy.cad.gatech.edu>
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Jason Price wrote:
> 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?
Well, it is in the info-pages, section on modifiers. Excerpt:
`h'
Remove a trailing pathname component, leaving the head.
`r'
Remove a trailing suffix of the form ``.'XXX', leaving the
basename.
`e'
Remove all but the suffix.
`t'
Remove all leading pathname components, leaving the tail.
[...]
So:
swen@kreta <~>: foo=/usr/local/bin/mumble
swen@kreta <~>: echo ${foo:t}
mumble
swen@kreta <~>:
Hope this helps.
--Swen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-09 17:21 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 [this message]
1998-12-09 17:23 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-12-09 17:44 ` Paul Lew
1998-12-10 10:45 ` Bruce Stephens
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