remove pathname

[7Star]

I have a variable that contain a path like /home/test/file.jpg and I want to get only the filename out of the whole path, filename.jpg, any idea how to do that?

/ Ola

 

[Salem]

The [tt]basename[/tt] and [tt]dirname[/tt] functions do this.
As in
[tt]a=`basename $file`[/tt]

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[7Star]

thx, exactly what I was looking for!

 

[feherke]

Hi

[tt]bash[/tt] and [tt]ksh[/tt] ( at least pdksh ) can do this themselves, without external tool runned as subprocess :

${file##*/}

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[olded]

Below are ksh function replacements for basename and dirname:

# Using ksh pattern-matching operators, this function
# replaces the unix basename command. If a 2nd argument
# exists, strip off the extension.
function basename {
typeset v x

v=${1##*/}
x=${2#.} # get rid of the '.'
v=${v%.$x}
echo $v
}


# Using ksh pattern-matching operators, this function
# replaces the unix dirname command.
function dirname {
typeset v="$@"

echo ${v%/*}
}

# basename and dirname function examples
var=/usr/eds/ddir/ttest.c

bn=$(basename $var)
echo $bn # displays: ttest.c

bn=$(basename $var .c)
echo $bn # displays: ttest

dn=$(dirname $var)
echo $dn # displays: /usr/eds/ddir