Re: OT: scripting question

["Michael D. Schleif" <mds@helices.org>]

Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote:
> 
> On 2001.11.08 23:44 Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> 
> You can use 'basename' command to remove complete path.

Are we trying to optimize the thrown together?  How about one (1) line
for both ???

	echo $file | sed 's!^.*/!!;s!\..*$!!'

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