NAME

basename − display portions of pathnames

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/basename string [ suffix ]

DESCRIPTION

basename deletes any prefix ending in ‘/’ and the suffix, if present in string. It directs the result to the standard output, and is normally used inside substitution marks (` `) within shell procedures.  The suffix is a string with no special significance attached to any of the characters it contains. 

EXAMPLES

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 directory:

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

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

SEE ALSO

sh(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.6  —  Last change: 28 Mar 1995