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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Hi,
I have a space delimited text file but I only want to change the first space to a tab and keep the rest of the spaces intact. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: evelibertine
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
basename
basename(1) General Commands Manual basename(1)Name
basename - strip directory names from pathname
Syntax
basename string [ suffix ]
Description
The command deletes from string any prefix up to and including the last slash (/) and the suffix (if specified), and prints the result on
the standard output. The command handles limited regular expressions in the same manner as metacharacters must be escaped if they are
intended to be interpreted literally. For example:
% basename /vmunix .x
vmun
% basename /vmunix '.x'
vmunix
In the first example, returns because it interprets the as a regular expression consisting of any character followed by the letter In the
second example, the dot is escaped; there is no match on a dot followed by and returns
The command is often used inside substitution marks (` `) within shell procedures.
Examples
The following example shell script compiles the file and moves the output to in the current directory:
cc /usr/src/bin/cat.c
mv a.out `basename $1 .c`
The following example echoes only the base name of the file by removing the prefix and any possible sequence of characters following the
period in the file's name:
% basename /etc/syslog.conf '..*'
syslog
See Alsodirname(1), ex(1), sh(1)basename(1)