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BASENAME(1) General Commands Manual BASENAME(1)

NAME

basename, dirnamereturn filename or directory portion of pathname

SYNOPSIS

basename string [suffix]

dirname string

DESCRIPTION

basename deletes any prefix ending with the last slash ‘/’ character present in string, and a suffix, if given. The resulting filename is written to the standard output. A non-existent suffix is ignored.

dirname deletes the filename portion, beginning with the last slash ‘/’ character to the end of string, and writes the result to the standard output.

EXIT STATUS

Both the basename and dirname utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

The following line sets the shell variable FOO to /usr/bin.

FOO=`dirname /usr/bin/trail`

STANDARDS

The basename and dirname utilities conform to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”).
April 18, 1994 NetBSD 7.0