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BASENAME(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual BASENAME(1) NAME basename, dirname -- return filename or directory portion of pathname SYNOPSIS basename string [suffix] basename [-a] [-s suffix] string [...] dirname string [...] DESCRIPTION The basename utility deletes any prefix ending with the last slash `/' character present in string (after first stripping trailing slashes), and a suffix, if given. The suffix is not stripped if it is identical to the remaining characters in string. The resulting filename is written to the standard output. A non-existent suffix is ignored. If -a is specified, then every argument is treated as a string as if basename were invoked with just one argument. If -s is specified, then the suffix is taken as its argument, and all other arguments are treated as a string. The dirname utility deletes the filename portion, beginning with the last slash `/' character to the end of string (after first stripping trailing slashes), and writes the result to the standard output. EXIT STATUS 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` SEE ALSO csh(1), sh(1), basename(3), dirname(3) STANDARDS The basename and dirname utilities are expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 ("POSIX.2") compatible. HISTORY The basename and dirname utilities first appeared in 4.4BSD. FreeBSD 13.0 May 26, 2020 FreeBSD 13.0
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