09-28-2006
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm trying to get the filename from a full path, but the filename contain spaces. So basename tries to remove the "suffix" which is part of the filename...
Ex.
#!/bin/ksh
INPUT=/full/path/file with space.mp3
FILE=$(basename $INPUT)
This will return a basename exception trying to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: linge
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys if i do
a=`basename -e -s /home/j/john/*`
du -k -h $a | sort -nr | head -10
why when i run the script does it work but also say usage basename string
any ideas thanks (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: musicmancanora4
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
can anyone help me by saying what is basename..
i have seen this in many programs where the basename is used....
thanks,
Krips (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kripssmart
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
can anyone let me know how to interpret the below third line in the following code.
Gone through the man pages of "basename", but no go.
for f in *.foo;
do
base=`basename $f .foo`
mv $f $base.bar
done
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: venkatesht
2 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file
fileinput.txt:
File home/me/fileA.doc is size 232
File home/you/you/fileB.doc is size 343
File /directory/fileC.doc is size 433
File /directory/filed.doc cannot find file size
I want to use the basename command (or any other command) to output:
File fileA.doc is... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: linuxkid
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Could you please help me to know the difference between
$0 and basename in unix how they useful in shell scripting.
Thanks in advance (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: lnviyyapu
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
im trying to extract the basename of a process running on a host
processx is running at host1 as /applications/myapps/bin/processx
i wanted to check if its running, then extract the basename only using:
$ ssh host1 "ps aux | grep -v 'grep' | grep 'processx'" | awk '{ print basename $11}'
... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: kaboink
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I would like to improve my bash scripting skill and found a problem which I do not understand. Task is to search and print files in directory (and subdirecories) which contains its own name. Files can have spaces in name.
This one works fine for files in main directory, but not for... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: new_item
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
what is the meaning of "script_name=$(basename $0)", can someone please explain? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: abhi200389
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I would like to use basename with wc .. I know I can use awk, but want to use basename.
Change this
wc -l txt*
106 /home/popeye/txt1
154 /home/popeye/txt2
159 /home/popeye/txt3
420 total
to this
wc -l txt*
106 txt1
154 txt2
159 txt3
420 total (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: popeye
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DIRNAME(3) 1 DIRNAME(3)
dirname - Returns parent directory's path
SYNOPSIS
string dirname (string $path)
DESCRIPTION
Given a string containing the path of a file or directory, this function will return the parent directory's path.
PARAMETERS
o $path
- A path. On Windows, both slash ( /) and backslash ( ) are used as directory separator character. In other environments, it is
the forward slash ( /).
RETURN VALUES
Returns the path of the parent directory. If there are no slashes in $path, a dot (' .') is returned, indicating the current directory.
Otherwise, the returned string is $path with any trailing /component removed.
CHANGELOG
+--------+-------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+-------------------------------+
| 5.0.0 | |
| | |
| | dirname(3) is now binary safe |
| | |
+--------+-------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
dirname(3) example
<?php
echo "1) " . dirname("/etc/passwd") . PHP_EOL; // 1) /etc
echo "2) " . dirname("/etc/") . PHP_EOL; // 2) / (or on Windows)
echo "3) " . dirname("."); // 3) .
?>
NOTES
Note
dirname(3) operates naively on the input string, and is not aware of the actual filesystem, or path components such as " ..".
Note
dirname(3) is locale aware, so for it to see the correct directory name with multibyte character paths, the matching locale must be
set using the setlocale(3) function.
Note
Since PHP 4.3.0, you will often get a slash or a dot back from dirname(3) in situations where the older functionality would have
given you the empty string.
Check the following change example:
<?php
//before PHP 4.3.0
dirname('c:/'); // returned '.'
//after PHP 4.3.0
dirname('c:/x'); // returns 'c:'
dirname('c:/Temp/x'); // returns 'c:/Temp'
dirname('/x'); // returns ''
?>
SEE ALSO
basename(3), pathinfo(3), realpath(3).
PHP Documentation Group DIRNAME(3)