Basename for multiple files

For what you need that? Shrapnel I will push the value of this string to array and then echo somewhere — James.

Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Pavel Morshenyuk Pavel Morshenyuk 10k 4 4 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. I'm newbie at programming, sometimes I feel like a donkey. If you already use pathino why do you also need basename? Add a comment. Bang Dao Bang Dao 4, 1 1 gold badge 22 22 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges.

Works, but its too interesting, is it possible to use basename with multiple extensions? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Of course, you can use the rename command to batch rename files but this is just an example. The basename command is complemented with dirname command. Unlike basename, the dirname command prints all the path except the last component.

I hope you liked this tutorial. As always, feel free to ask questions or provide suggestions in the comment section. Please enter at least 3 characters 0 results found. Abhishek Prakash. Learn some practical examples of using basename command in bash scripts. Table of Contents. Let me show it to you with some examples. Basename command The basename command has two kinds of syntax. You can also separate output with NULL instead of the newline with -z option. The dirname command in Linux extracts the directory path from a file path.

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