diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7dcd1c0..29c3714 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ Changes in version 1.12.3
   * lib/libapse.lib, lib/libspec.lib - Davide Madrisan:
     Style fixes.
 
++ improvement
+  * lib/libapse.lib - Davide Madrisan:
+    Do not use 'dirname' and 'basename': bash provides primitives to do that.
+
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 Changes in version 1.12.2
diff --git a/lib/libapse.lib.in b/lib/libapse.lib.in
index 914e37a..19715ee 100644
--- a/lib/libapse.lib.in
+++ b/lib/libapse.lib.in
@@ -311,10 +311,10 @@ ${proxy:+ --proxy $proxy}${proxy_user:+ --proxy-user $proxy_user}"
       notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: skipping ${apse_site_name[0]}"
    else
       if [[ "$pckurl" =~ .*://.* ]]; then
-         local pckurldir="`dirname $pckurl`/"
+         local pckurldir="${pckurl%/*}/"
          notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: pckurldir = $pckurldir"
 
-         local pcknameverbatim=`basename $pckurlverbatim`
+         local pcknameverbatim="${pckurlverbatim##*/}"
          notify.debug "$FUNCNAME: pcknameverbatim = $pcknameverbatim"
 
          curr_curl_url="$pckurldir"