script problem

[Jerry Queirolo]

> I have a backup script that I wrote.  In it I have a variable that
> has listings of directories to back up.  Because of some of the sizes of 
> the
> directories, and for other reasons, they now want me to break them where I
> back them up into multiple files with the name of the directory instead of
> all in one file.  It would be simple except that I can't find how to get
> just the final directory name for each directory.
>
> Example:
> DIRSTOBACKUP= "/usr/local/bin
> /etc
> /home/steve
> /usr/local/src"

If you just want your results to end up as bin.tar.gz, etc.tar.gz, 
steve.tar.gz etc for your example below, can't you just use basename ?

-jq