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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)