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Shell Tricks Part 1 – Substituting basename, dirname and ls commands

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Substituting basename, dirname and ls commands

In Bourne shell, it is possible to use the following variable expansions as substitutes for the basename, dirname and ls commands

$ MYVAR=/path/to/basename
$ echo ${MYVAR##*/}
basename
$ MYVAR=/path/to/dirname
$ echo ${MYVAR%/*}
/path/to
$ echo *
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