Oh, I'm using PERL, I found the module File::Basename does just that, thanks for the help! Yang On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:16:26 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yang Xiao wrote: > > Hi all, > > I can't remember how to strip the full path out and just get the file > > name in something like this > > /fullpath/to/file or /full/path/to/file.ext > > Can anyone provide a regex that will get me just file or file.ext. > > You don't say what language you are trying to do this in. > > If it's part of a shell script you can just use: > > filename=`basename $pathname` > > Paul. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >