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Isolate file name from full path/find output

Terminal - Isolate file name from full path/find output
echo ${fullpath##*/}
2010-07-21 22:35:29
User: quincymd
Functions: echo
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Isolate file name from full path/find output

Quick method of isolating filenames from a full path using expansion.

Much quicker than using "basename"

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What others think

That's not much quicker than:

echo $(basename $fullpath)

But basename is certainly less cryptic.

Comment by imgx64 96 weeks and 1 day ago

Using "find /" to get all files on my box, it took the expansion version 45 seconds to isolate filenames whilst "basename" took 14 minutes.

That's a hell of a lot quicker.

Comment by quincymd 96 weeks and 1 day ago

AFAIK this "chomp" is builtin - therefore it does not start an extra program - good for scripts... up

Comment by zwergnase 96 weeks and 1 day ago

if you have spaces (evil!) in your filenames, you have to set the IFS to linebreak.

Comment by new_user 96 weeks ago

IFS=$'\n'

I mean

Comment by new_user 96 weeks ago

Yup, that's a "feature" of find we have to work with.

In addition, there are no problems with expansion when reading filenames from a file.

ie find / > tempfile; cat tempfile | while read fullpath; do echo "${fullpath##*/}"; done; rm tempfile

Comment by quincymd 95 weeks and 6 days ago

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