basename

Overview ¶

Package basename implements the `basename` built-in.

Forms (POSIX + GNU):

basename NAME [SUFFIX]
basename -a NAME...
basename -s SUFFIX NAME...

Trailing slashes are stripped before extracting the basename (matching coreutils). When SUFFIX is supplied it is removed from the result only if the result is longer than SUFFIX (so `basename .x .x` returns ".x", not "").