basename

basename

 basename is used to get the name of the file given its complete path including the file.

It is also  helpful to access the name of  a script within it.

Ex ample1)

To get the name of a file from its complete path.

/home/gj876$ echo $CGI_PATH

/utilities/intranet/apache/cgi-docs/cowboy

/home/gj876$ basename $CGI_PATH

cowboy

Example2)

Suppose a script “/home/scripts/linkfiles.sh” is called from   another script with its complete path,then to access the  base filename of  “/home/scripts/linkfiles.sh”, use

#!/usr/bin/ksh

File_name=`basename $0`

echo $File_name

the output will be linkfiles.sh