basename(1)

✨ basename(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the basename page 💖 it lives in the General Commands Manual section (section 1, the iconic one), and it's about to become your new fave.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

basename — print NAME with any leading directory components removed. If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

basename [-a|--multiple] [-s|--suffix] [-z|--zero] [-h|--help]
[-V|--version] [name]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Print NAME with any leading directory components removed. If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX.

that's literally it and that's literally the whole vibe ✨ you hand it a path, it hands you back just the last lil piece. no folders, no drama. and if you want, it'll also snip a suffix off the end for you. lowkey essential.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -a, --multiple — support multiple arguments and treat each as a NAME 💖 so instead of one path at a time, you can dump a whole lil lineup in there.
• -s, --suffix <SUFFIX> — remove a trailing SUFFIX; implies -a 🎀 note that implication bestie, it turns on -a for you. no cap.
• -z, --zero — end each output line with NUL, not newline 🫶 for when you're piping into something that wants NUL-separated stuff (iykyk).
• -h, --help — print help ✨
• -V, --version — print version 💜

⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 slay, you now know basename fr fr. this iconic lil number comes to you from basename (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 — that's the source and the version right there, keep it in your heart 💖 mwah, go strip some directories 🌈💅