A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux® 8

Exercises

1.	The dirname utility treats its argument as a pathname and writes to standard output the path prefix, that is, everything up to but not including the last component. Thus dirname a/b/c/d writes a/b/c to standard output. If path is a simple filename (has no / characters), dirname writes a . to standard output. Implement dirname as a Z Shell function. Make sure that it behaves sensibly when given such arguments as /.
2.	Implement the basename utility, which writes the last component of its pathname argument to standard output, as a Z Shell function. For example, zsh % basename a/b/c/d writes d to standard output.
3.	The GNU/Linux basename utility has an optional second argument. If you type basename path suffix basename removes the ...