Basename
| basename | |
|---|---|
| Initial release | January 1979 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Inferno |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | Command |
| License | coreutils: GPLv3+ Plan 9: MIT License |
basename is a shell command for extracting the last name of a file path.
The command was introduced in X/Open Portability Guidelines issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the Single Unix Specification. It first appeared in 4.4BSD. The version in GNU Core Utilities was written by David MacKenzie. The command is available for Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project and UnxUtils.