Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] wildmatch test: create & test files on disk in addition to in-memory

[Junio C Hamano]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <ava...@gmail.com> writes:

> +     # Turn foo/bar/baz into foo/bar to create foo/bar as a
> +     # directory structure.
> +     dirs=$(echo "$file" | sed -r 's!/[^/]+$!!')

Let's not limit this script to GNUism systems.

You want to see if $file has a slash followed by one or more non-slash
letters to the end and strip the whole thing.  We further know that
at this point $file does not end with a slash.  So perhaps

        dirs=${file%/*}

is sufficient?

Thanks.