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basename dirname(1) - return filename or directory portion of pathname {oss}

doschk - is a utility to ensure that source file names are distinguishable on MS-DOS, FreeDOS and other DOS systems with 8+3 character filenames, and on System V platforms with 14-character filenames. {GPL,GNU}

shrink_names - Shrink VeryLong+File.names to shorter names {oss}

realpath (3) - returns the canonicalized absolute pathname {oss}

glob globfree (3) - generate pathnames matching a pattern {oss}

fnmatch (3) - match filename or pathname using shell glob rules {oss}

basename dirname (3) - extract the base or directory portition of a pathname {oss}

p5-Mac-FileSpec-Unixish-1.11 - Perl module with functions to manipluate pathspecs in Unixish style

ruby-fnmatch-1.1b - A Ruby module which provides File::fnmatch and File::FNM_*

Truname.C - Normalize filename using undocumented DOS {oss,msdos}

Truname.C - Normalize filename using undocumented DOS {oss,msdos}

DOS file name processing functions {oss}

Filnames.H - Header file for file name processing functions below {oss}

Fln_Fix.C - Crunch dot directories, verify DOS-valid paths {oss}

Flnorm.C - Full file name normalization {oss}

Unix2Dos.C - Convert Unix-style pathnames to DOS-style {oss}

Chgext.C - Change/add a file name extension {oss}

Fnsplit.C - Portable fnsplit(), fnmerge() equivalents {oss}

Vfname.H, Vfname.C - Validate legal file names - DOS defaults but configurable {oss}

Addpath.C - Append a new entry to DOS PATH {oss}

glob - 'Globbing' library routine {oss}

File::KGlob - Expands a Unix file glob, e.g. "*" is replaced by a list of the files in the current directory. Also see the entry for glob() in ./docs/manual/html/perlfunc.html. [Perl] {oss}

File::KGlobRE - Converts a Unix file glob to a regular expression. Bundled with File::KGlob. [Perl] {oss}

Libraries and Functions

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See also File Information - Obtaining file information (status, configuration, et al)

Up to Text Strings - Gateway topic to character and string processing routines. NUL Terminated String processing String conversions,et al. ascii to long, long to