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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

drek wrote:
> On 09/29/2008 04:02 PM, David Bolt wrote:
> > This should do:
> > WHICHEVER_VARIABLE_NAME_YOU_WANT=${PWD##*/}
> >                                   ^       ^
> > And these are curly braces.
> Thanks, but... Can you explain this? For me, it is just a magic guess
> with some #'s and a star and slash. How do you come up with this solution?
>
> André

Andre

        See: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html

        Halfway down the page....

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