basename is a

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for extracting the last name of a file path. The command was introduced in X/Open Portability Guidelines issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of

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and the

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. It first appeared in 4.4BSD. The version in

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was written by David MacKenzie. The command is available for

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as part of the GnuWin32 project and

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.Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities
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is: . The required argument, path, is a file path string. The second argument, which is optional, is text to remove from the end of the last name if it ends with the text.

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The command reports the last part of a path ignoring any trailing slashes. $ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki base.wiki $ basename /home/jsmith/ jsmith If the suffix argument is included and matches the end of the last name, then that text is removed from the result. $ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki .wiki base $ basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki xx base.wiki

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