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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting basename problem Post 302304454 by Lakris on Monday 6th of April 2009 01:13:34 PM
Old 04-06-2009
Hi again,
yes because even if You remove the -s and -e it may still be syntactically wrong, probably because the wild card * expands to more arguments than base name expects.

A few ways to get the dir names from a directory could be

Code:
ls -d /home/lakris/*/

Code:
find /home/lakris  -maxdepth 1 -type d

or even
Code:
tree -d -L 1 /home/lakris

if You have it. But perhaps not so good for scripting!
After You've got the names, You can treat hem with basename to get the basic file (dir) name You want.

An example:

ls -1 -d /home/lakris/*/|while read line; do basename $line;done
Last edited by Lakris; 04-06-2009 at 02:17 PM.. Reason: added an example
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

basename

basename(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      basename(1B)

NAME

       basename - display portions of pathnames

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/basename string [suffix]

DESCRIPTION

       The  basename  utility deletes any prefix ending in `/' and the suffix, if present in string. It directs the result to the standard output,
       and is normally used inside substitution marks (` `) within shell procedures. The suffix is a string with no special significance  attached
       to any of the characters it contains.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Using the basename command.

       This shell procedure invoked with the argument /usr/src/bin/cat.c compiles the named file and moves the output to cat in the current direc-
       tory:

       example% cc $1
       example% mv a.out `basename $1 .c`

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       sh(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    28 Mar 1995 						      basename(1B)
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