basename(1) [bsd man page]

BASENAME(1)						      General Commands Manual						       BASENAME(1)

NAME

       basename - strip filename affixes

SYNOPSIS

       basename string [ suffix ]

DESCRIPTION

       Basename  deletes any prefix ending in `/' and the suffix, if present in string, from string, and prints the result on the standard output.
       It is normally used inside substitution marks ` ` in shell procedures.

       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:

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

SEE ALSO

       sh(1)

7th Edition							  April 29, 1985						       BASENAME(1)

BASENAME(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       BASENAME(1)

NAME

     basename, dirname -- return filename or directory portion of pathname

SYNOPSIS

     basename string [suffix]
     basename [-a] [-s suffix] string [...]
     dirname string [...]

DESCRIPTION

     The basename utility deletes any prefix ending with the last slash '/' character present in string (after first stripping trailing slashes),
     and a suffix, if given.  The suffix is not stripped if it is identical to the remaining characters in string.  The resulting filename is
     written to the standard output.  A non-existent suffix is ignored.  If -a is specified, then every argument is treated as a string as if
     basename were invoked with just one argument.  If -s is specified, then the suffix is taken as its argument, and all other arguments are
     treated as a string.

     The dirname utility deletes the filename portion, beginning with the last slash '/' character to the end of string (after first stripping
     trailing slashes), and writes the result to the standard output.

EXIT STATUS

     The basename and dirname utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

     The following line sets the shell variable FOO to /usr/bin.

	   FOO=`dirname /usr/bin/trail`

SEE ALSO

     csh(1), sh(1), basename(3), dirname(3)

STANDARDS

     The basename and dirname utilities are expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.

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