BASENAME(1) | General Commands Manual | BASENAME(1) |
basename
, dirname
— return filename or directory portion of
pathname
basename |
string [suffix] |
dirname |
string |
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.
Both the basename
and
dirname
utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an
error occurs.
The following line sets the shell variable
FOO
to /usr/bin.
FOO=`dirname
/usr/bin/trail`
The basename
and
dirname
utilities conform to IEEE
Std 1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”).
April 18, 1994 | NetBSD 10.99 |