I think the easy solution is to use cd first.
Use a subshell and you don't even need to remember where you were:
edit:
if you're just curious about the functionality of basename, it operates on a parameter and doesn't strip paths from stdin. so piping to it is not going to work. you'd have to read and split wc's output using the shell and feed it back into basename, like so:
but at this point you may as well continue using the shells feature of parameter expansion to save from calling external programs a whole lot:
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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)
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)
Hi guys,
I need to know how i can ignore Pipe '|' if Pipe is coming as a column in Pipe delimited file
for eg:
file 1:
xx|yy|"xyz|zzz"|zzz|12...
using below awk command
awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS="|" } print $3
i would get xyz
But i want as :
xyz|zzz to consider as whole column... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: rohit_shinez
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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)