[ale] man doesn't help

[Wandered Inn]

David Hamm wrote:
> 
> There is a command like basename.  It strips off the extension of a
> filename and prints it but I can't remember the name of the command.  I've
> checked the man page for basename and it does not mention any other command
> simular to basename.  Could someone help jog my memory?

There's a couple different ways to do it depending on the shell you're
running.  Under pdksh and bash you can do something like this:

$ foo=$(whence ksh)
$ echo $foo
/usr/local/bin/ksh
$ echo ${foo##*/}
ksh

I don't know about other shells...


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> David Hamm
> Systems Analyst
> Imaging Technologies Services Inc.
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