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.\"
.\" cook - file construction tool
.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1997, 1998 Peter Miller;
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
.\"
.\" MANIFEST: User Guide, Builtin Functions, Basename
.\"
.H 2 "basename"
The
.I basename
treats each argument as filenames,
and extracts all but the suffix of each filename.
If the filename contains a period,
the basename is everything up to (but not including) the period.
Otherwise,
the basename is the entire filename.
.P
Please note: this is not the same behavior as the Unix
\fIbasename\fP(1) utility. For this, \f(CW[basename
[notdir\fP \fIargs\fP\f(CW]]\fP or \f(CW[fromto %0%.c %0%\fP
\fIargs\fP\f(CW]\fP may be more appropriate.
.H 3 "Example"
.TS
center,tab(;);
l l.
Expression;Result
_
[basename foo.c];foo
[basename foo/bar.c];foo/bar
[basename baz];baz
[basename foo/bar/baz];foo/bar/baz
.TE
.H 3 "See Also"
addsuffix,
dirname,
entryname,
fromto,
notdir,
suffix
.H 3 "Caveat"
This function is almost nothing like the Unix command of the same name.
It operates in this manner for compatibility with other packages.
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