lowercase basedir? get filename

mainegate · #1 (**permalink**) 11-17-2008

Is there an equivalent of basedir in shell script? I have a file location and I want to lowercase just the filename not the path.

Corona688 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-17-2008

Try basename, this will return the filename without the path.

jim mcnamara · #3 (**permalink**) 11-17-2008

Code:

dir=$(dirname /some/path/to/a/file)
result="$dir/$(basename /some/path/to/a/file | tr -s '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )"
echo "$result"

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