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Extracting File Name
How can you extract just the Filename from the Fully Qualified Path and Filename.Basename?



  
Total Answers and Comments: 5 Last Update: August 10, 2009     Asked by: sgodkhindi 
  
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April 01, 2008 21:04:57   #1  
AnsarP Member Since: April 2008   Contribution: 1    
RE: Extracting File Name
basename $filename will extract filename from a path. if you wish to extract the complete path use the commane dirname $filename.
 
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June 02, 2008 04:22:47   #2  
Prasad2008 Member Since: June 2008   Contribution: 8    
RE: Extracting File Name
dirname will not give the full path of the file. It will do the opposite (but in case of directories) . If a full path is given then it will extract the directory name from it.
 
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January 15, 2009 03:02:05   #3  
arunkumj Member Since: January 2009   Contribution: 2    
RE: Extracting File Name
You can use basename

basename /ms/user/a/arunkumj/Arun/file.txt

file.txt as output
 
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January 15, 2009 03:04:49   #4  
arunkumj Member Since: January 2009   Contribution: 2    
RE: Extracting File Name
cat will give the full content of a file in one go.
more will give the content of the file in page by page
 
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August 10, 2009 03:16:56   #5  
jincee Member Since: May 2009   Contribution: 1    
RE: Extracting File Name
file1 `basename $0`
echo "$file1"

(or)

file1 `basename /home/user1/Jincy/base.ksh`
echo $file1

The above commands will give the outpuy as base.ksh

if you just need the base of the file alone then try the below.
file1 `basename /home/user1/Jincy/base.ksh | cut -d "." -f1`

this will give you the output : base

Thanks
Jincy



 
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