How to get file-name from a path or a URL
Q. What is the good and simple way to extract a filename from complete path in Linux?
Some times its handy to get just filename instead of filename with path as shown below.
/path/to/my/file
to just filename
file
This can be achieved by using basename command in linux.
Syntax
basename /path/to/my/file
Example:
basename /home/surendra/out.ogv
out.ogv
With SED:
echo "/home/surendra/out.ogv" | sed -r 's_(/.*/)(.*)_\2_g'
out.ogv
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It is that much simple.
How about getting all the filenames from a given set of paths which are stored in a file or a command output.
Script to extract filenames from path
for i in `cat /abc/completefilenames.txt`
do
basename $i
done
Let me explain the above code. for loop will take one by one line from /abc/completefilenames.txt file and feed that one to basename command, which intern will give you just the file name.
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