Re: split a /path/filename into components

From: Josef Moellers <josef.moellers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:43:00 +0200

Bernhard Holzmayer wrote:

Eric wrote:

Is there a C library function that can take a path and break it into its
component parts? I think dos has one called fnsplit but i cant seem to
find an equal in the linux world
Thanks
Eric

man 3 dirname
man 3 basename

Hmm, interesting idea. Use dirname/basename to parse a pathname backwards.

Seriously: not a bad idea!

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