{"id":417,"date":"2012-10-17T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2012\/10\/17\/shell-basename-and-dirname-through-parameter-expansion\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T20:00:00","slug":"shell-basename-and-dirname-through-parameter-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2012\/10\/17\/shell-basename-and-dirname-through-parameter-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"shell: basename and dirname through Parameter Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\nIf you want to have basename and dirname a little faster through shell builtins, you may want to try these in bash or Korn Shell:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>basename: ${file##*\/}<\/li>\n<li>dirname: ${file%\/*}<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\nI don&#8217;t really recommend to use these substitutes, I still find basename and dirname quite readable and I am not using them in a loop anyway.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to have basename and dirname a little faster through shell builtins, you may want to try these in bash or Korn Shell: basename: ${file##*\/} dirname: ${file%\/*} I don&#8217;t really recommend to use these substitutes, I still find basename and dirname quite readable and I am not using them in a loop anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-6J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}