[ale] SHELL: get file name

[Geoffrey]

Michael Kachline wrote:
>>Zyman, Andy wrote
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>Some time ago i had the question "how to get dirname". Now i decided to go
>>>even further :) and get filename.
>>>So here we go:
>>>ABSFILE=/home/aaa/bbb/ddd/name.log
>>>
>>echo ${ABSFILE##*/}
>>
> 
> 	FILENAME="echo $fullfile  | `basename`"

Again, using the binary /bin/basename is much slower.  echo the var 
piped to basename doesn't make sense either, it invokes more overhead 
because of the pipe.  basename takes a filename or var as argument, so 
there's no need in the pipe.  The above builtin is much faster and cleaner.

> 
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> 				- Mike
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>  Michael Kachline
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>  Intec Telecom Systems
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