Initial release | January 1979 |
---|---|
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License |
coreutils:
GPLv3+ Plan 9: MIT License |
basename is a standard
computer program on
Unix and
Unix-like
operating systems. When basename is given a
pathname, it will delete any prefix up to the last slash ('/'
) character and return the result. basename is described in the
Single UNIX Specification and is primarily used in
shell scripts.
basename
was introduced in
X/Open Portability Guidelines issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the
Single Unix Specification.
[1] It first appeared in 4.4BSD.
[2]
The version of basename
bundled in
GNU
coreutils was written by David MacKenzie.
[3]
The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project [4] and the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities. [5]
The Single UNIX Specification specification for basename is.
basename string [suffix]
basename will retrieve the last name from a pathname ignoring any trailing slashes
$ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki
base.wiki
$ basename /home/jsmith/
jsmith
$ basename /
/
basename can also be used to remove the end of the base name, but not the complete base name
$ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki .wiki
base
$ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki ki
base.wi
$ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki base.wiki
base.wiki
Initial release | January 1979 |
---|---|
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License |
coreutils:
GPLv3+ Plan 9: MIT License |
basename is a standard
computer program on
Unix and
Unix-like
operating systems. When basename is given a
pathname, it will delete any prefix up to the last slash ('/'
) character and return the result. basename is described in the
Single UNIX Specification and is primarily used in
shell scripts.
basename
was introduced in
X/Open Portability Guidelines issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the
Single Unix Specification.
[1] It first appeared in 4.4BSD.
[2]
The version of basename
bundled in
GNU
coreutils was written by David MacKenzie.
[3]
The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project [4] and the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities. [5]
The Single UNIX Specification specification for basename is.
basename string [suffix]
basename will retrieve the last name from a pathname ignoring any trailing slashes
$ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki
base.wiki
$ basename /home/jsmith/
jsmith
$ basename /
/
basename can also be used to remove the end of the base name, but not the complete base name
$ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki .wiki
base
$ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki ki
base.wi
$ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki base.wiki
base.wiki