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1.15    ! sobrado    36: .Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
1.1       deraadt    37: .Dt BASENAME 1
                     38: .Os
                     39: .Sh NAME
1.4       deraadt    40: .Nm basename
                     41: .Nd return filename portion of pathname
1.1       deraadt    42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     43: .Nm basename
                     44: .Ar string
                     45: .Op Ar suffix
                     46: .Sh DESCRIPTION
1.7       aaron      47: .Nm
1.1       deraadt    48: deletes any prefix ending with the last slash
1.5       aaron      49: .Pq Sq \&/
1.1       deraadt    50: character present in
                     51: .Ar string ,
                     52: and a
                     53: .Ar suffix ,
                     54: if given.
                     55: The resulting filename is written to the standard output.
                     56: A non-existent suffix is ignored.
1.11      aaron      57: .Pp
1.15    ! sobrado    58: .Ex -std basename
1.6       aaron      59: .Sh EXAMPLES
1.1       deraadt    60: The following line sets the shell variable
                     61: .Ev FOO
                     62: to
1.10      dugsong    63: .Pa tail :
1.1       deraadt    64: .Pp
1.10      dugsong    65: .Dl FOO=`basename /usr/bin/tail`
1.1       deraadt    66: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.5       aaron      67: .Xr csh 1 ,
1.4       deraadt    68: .Xr dirname 1 ,
1.8       aaron      69: .Xr sh 1 ,
                     70: .Xr basename 3
1.1       deraadt    71: .Sh STANDARDS
                     72: The
1.7       aaron      73: .Nm
1.13      jmc        74: utility is compliant with the
                     75: .St -p1003.1-2004
                     76: specification.