From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 19:07:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] wildmatch test: create & test files on disk in addition to in-memory
Message-ID: <xmqqr2rgm1kv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171225002835.29005-8-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@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.