basename(1B)

Name

basename - display portions of pathnames

Synopsis

/usr/ucb/basename string [
suffix]

Description

The basename utility 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

Example 1 Using the basename command.

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:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability compatibility/ucb

See also

sh(1), attributes (5)

This command is obsolete and will be removed in a future release of Oracle Solaris. See basename(1) for an alternate implementation of this command.