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BASENAME
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: October 2021
Index NAME
basename - strip directory and suffix from filenames
SYNOPSIS
basename,NAME /[
,SUFFIX/]
basename,OPTION/...
,NAME/...
DESCRIPTION
Print NAME with any leading directory components removed.If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -a, --multiple
- support multiple arguments and treat each as a NAME
- -s, --suffix=,SUFFIX/
- remove a trailing SUFFIX; implies -a
- -z, --zero
- end each output line with NUL, not newline
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
- basename /usr/bin/sort
- -> "sort"
- basename include/stdio.h .h
- -> "stdio"
- basename -s .h include/stdio.h
- -> "stdio"
- basename -a any/str1 any/str2
- -> "str1" followed by "str2"
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <
https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
dirname(1),
readlink(1)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/basename>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) basename invocationaq
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- EXAMPLES
- AUTHOR
- REPORTING BUGS
- COPYRIGHT
- SEE ALSO
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