Re: :t and getting senile.

On 2006-09-25, george.e.sullivan@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Ok, I know I am getting old. I can't remember where I saw this, but
how do you strip off the end of string such as a command line string so
that you just get the last part after the slash bar?

Ex: /here/there/everywhere/hello.

There was something I saw somewhere with a :t that would just give me
the hello part.

I don't know about :t (that may be something non-standard, such as
csh or zsh), but in a POSIX shell:

var=/here/there/everywhere/hello
base=${var##*/}

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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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