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Old 04-03-2011
how to get only filename in a recursively find command
Hi i would like to ask on how to accomplish the FF:

I want to execute a find command recursively and only get the filename something like i want only the last field set if is used ever the fieldvset as an redirection from the output of the find command

For example:

dir1/dir2/filename1
dir1/filename2
dir1/dir2/dir3/filename3
and so on
...
....

Output
filename1
filename2
filename3
filename...
....
....
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Old 04-03-2011
basename

Code:
 find -type f -exec basename {} \;

# 3  
Old 04-03-2011
Ruby(1.9+)
Code:
$ ruby -e 'Dir["**/*"].each{|x| puts File.basename(x)}'

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