NAME

basename − strip filename affixes

SYNTAX

basename string [ suffix ]

DESCRIPTION

The basename command deletes any prefix ending in a slash ( / ) and the suffix, if present in string, from string, and prints the result on the standard output.  It is normally used inside graves marks (` `) in shell procedures. 

This shell procedure invoked with the argument /usr/src/cmd/cat.c compiles the named file and moves the output to cat in the current directory:

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

SEE ALSO

sh(1)