SysIII/usr/src/man/man1/basename.1

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.TH BASENAME 1
.SH NAME
basename, dirname \- deliver portions of path names
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B basename
string [ suffix ]
.br
.B dirname
string
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Basename\^
deletes any prefix ending in
.B /
and the
.I suffix\^
(if present in
.IR string )
from
.IR string ,
and prints the result on the standard output.
It is normally used inside substitution marks
.RB ( "\*`\|\*`" )
within shell procedures.
.PP
.I Dirname\^
delivers all but the last level of the path name in
.IR string .
.SH EXAMPLES
The following example, invoked with the argument
.BR /usr/src/cmd/cat.c ,
compiles the named file and moves the output to
a file named
.B cat
in the current directory:
.PP
.RS
cc \|$1
.br
mv \|a.out \|\*`basename \|$1 \|.c\*`
.RE
.PP
The following example will set
the shell variable
.SM
.B NAME
to
.BR /usr/src/cmd :
.PP
.RS
\s-1NAME\s+1=\*`dirname \|/usr/src/cmd/cat\f3.\fPc\*`
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
sh(1).