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authorPete Travis <immanetize@fedoraproject.org>2014-10-01 11:33:51 -0600
committerPete Travis <immanetize@fedoraproject.org>2014-10-01 11:33:51 -0600
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+# Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 11:22:36 edt
+# From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
+# To: bfox@gnu.ai.mit.edu
+
+# A replacement for basename(1). Not all the systems I use have this
+# program. Usage: basename [path] {extension}
+function basename ()
+{
+ local path="$1"
+ local suffix="$2"
+ local tpath="${path%/}"
+
+ # Strip trailing '/' characters from path (unusual that this should
+ # ever occur, but basename(1) seems to deal with it.)
+ while [ "${tpath}" != "${path}" ]; do
+ tpath="${path}"
+ path="${tpath%/}"
+ done
+
+ path="${path##*/}" # Strip off pathname
+ echo ${path%${suffix}} # Also strip off extension, if any.
+}
+