basename - return non-directory portion of a pathname
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basename string [suffix]
Basename deletes the directory part of the filename-like string and prints the result. If suffix is specified, and suffix matches the last part of the result while characters remain, the matched portion of string is also deleted. /usr/5bin/basename and /usr/5bin/s42/basename interpret suffix as a simple regular expression as described in ed(1); /usr/5bin/posix/basename and /usr/5bin/posix2001/basename treat it as a fixed string.
LANG, LC_ALL See locale(7). LC_CTYPE Determines the mapping of bytes to characters.
dirname(1), ed(1), sh(1), locale(7)
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