Wanted: How to strip off pathnames to obtain filenames.

[Michael Morrell]

/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / pcl at ihlpf.ATT.COM (pcl) /  4:07 pm  Sep  1, 1988 /
My question is, given a full or partial pathname, how to obtain the
last field (which is the filename) in a straight foward manner.

P. C. Liu		pcl at ihlpf.ATT.COM
----------

You could use "echo $filename | sed 's/.*\///'", but using basename(1) is
much easier.

   Michael