On 23 Oct 2000, Alan Shutko wrote:
>Date: 23 Oct 2000 09:20:28 -0400
>From: Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Subject: Re: basename in backticks
>
>John DeDourek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> If I'm right, I might instead investigate whether
>> your /bin/basename is somehow messed up; or maybe you're right that
>> it is that find is somehow not executing /bin/basename correctly.
>
>It's find. find /etc -exec sh -c 'echo {} `basename {}`' \; works as
>expected.
The above causes a fork(),exec() and load of /bin/sh with every
file found and is quite innefficient.
The following does the same, much quicker with a pipe.
find /etc | sed -e 's#.*/##g'
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