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BASENAME
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: August 2012
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NAME
basename - strip directory and suffix from filenames
SYNOPSIS
basename
NAME [SUFFIX]
basename
OPTION... NAME...
DESCRIPTION
Print NAME with any leading directory components removed.
If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX.
- -a, --multiple
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support multiple arguments and treat each as a NAME
- -s, --suffix=SUFFIX
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remove a trailing SUFFIX
- -z, --zero
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separate output with NUL rather than newline
- --help
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display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
- basename /usr/bin/sort
-
-> "sort"
- basename include/stdio.h .h
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-> "stdio"
- basename -s .h include/stdio.h
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-> "stdio"
- basename -a any/str1 any/str2
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-> "str1" followed by "str2"
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report basename bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report basename translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
dirname(1), readlink(1)
The full documentation for
basename
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
basename
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqbasename invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- EXAMPLES
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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