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Old 08-28-2008
Need a command to get part of a record from file
I have a file which contains a record like follows

/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.dat

I need command so that output can be only file.dat
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Old 08-28-2008
basename /dir1/dir2/dir3/file.dat
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Old 08-28-2008
hi wempy


the basename command is not reading the file the in which records are present.

i have a file (say temp) which contains the records in the following format

dir1/dir2/dir2/file.dat
dir1/dir2/dir2/file2.dat
----
-----

so now i need to get only file names that temp file
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Old 08-28-2008
while read lin;
do
basename $lin
done <temp
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Old 08-28-2008
Code:
awk -F / '{ print $NF }' temp

 
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