BASENAME

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report basename translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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 at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/basename>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) basename invocationaq

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLES

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO