BASENAME(1) |
General Commands Manual |
BASENAME(1) |
NAME
basename, dirname — return filename or directory portion of pathname
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”).