Questions tagged [basename]
For questions pertaining to basename, a utility that returns the non-directory portion of a pathname.
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Basename detects an extra operand if I use it with find
I try to execute basename via find like this:
find ./test_folder -type f -exec basename {} +
But I get the following error:
basename: extra operand './test_folder/test/file.crt'
Why I get this ...
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Basename in find -exec
I need use in find results full path and dir name.
This not work:
find ./1cv8 -maxdepth 1 -type d -wholename "./1cv8/*" -exec bash -c 'echo vrunner -src "{}" -o ./builds/"${...
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Why basename don't work here [duplicate]
Why when I do this (I know, it's stupid) it returns the full path, not only the filename as expected?
ls -l | awk '{print $9}' | xargs -I% find ./my_dir -type f -name "%" -exec echo $(...
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Why do I need to use the -I parameter in `compgen -G ... | xargs basename`?
I ran into a situation where I was piping the output of compgen -G to xargs basename and could not get it to work until I added the xargs -I parameter as seen below. Here is a script demonstrating ...
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find -exec command options with basename [duplicate]
I have the following JPEG files :
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 384065 janv. 21 12:10 CamScanner 01-10-2022 14.54.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 200892 janv. 10 14:55 CamScanner 01-10-2022 14.55.jpg
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How can I output a txt file, that has part of filename followed by path of file for all files in a folder, one line per file?
I have the following files
/folder/abc1.txt.gz
/folder/abc2.txt.gz
/folder/abc3.txt.gz
I would like to make a txt file with the following
abc1 /folder/abc1.txt.gz
abc2 /folder/abc2.txt.gz
abc3 /...
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Map over file tree, preserving structure
I have a file tree that looks like:
$ tree src
src
├── bible
│ ├── index.md
│ └── README.md
├── index.md
└── other.md
I want to render every Markdown file within this file tree to HTML via pandoc(...
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How can I use basename with parallel?
I have files like this on a Linux system:
10S1_S5_L002_chrm.fasta SRR3184711_chrm.fasta SRR3987378_chrm.fasta SRR4029368_chrm.fasta SRR5204465_chrm.fasta SRR5997546_chrm.fasta
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Bash: removing several patterns from file names
Normally, looping over the files I use basename to extract the name of the file as a separate variable:
# remove .pdb extension from filename in new variable and print name of the file without it
for ...
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the command find not working with -name option in sh file [duplicate]
I am using the following command to retrieve the number of files which names contains sv or json in a given directory in a remote server:
nbs_files=`ssh -q -i ${sshkey} ${user}@${server} "find ${...
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Filename from pathname excluding (unknown) extension
Having a pathname it is possible to extract its filename, excluding its apriori known extension, with basename:
$ pathname="/home/paulo/paulo.pdf"
$ printf "%s\n" "$(basename $pathname .pdf)"
paulo
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basename execution on remote node
ssh ubuntu@$ip -n "aws s3 cp s3://bucket/$userlistlocation . --region eu-central-1 ; fbname=$(basename '$userlistlocation') ; echo "$fbname""
This above command is part of jenkins job.
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basename "$0" not working
I have this command:
base_name="$(basename "$0")";
and I am getting this error:
basename: illegal option -- b
usage: basename string [suffix]
basename [-a] [-s suffix] string [...]...
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only use the filename for move
I have to move some files from one folder to another, criteria set by a find and grep. When I try to move the files it breaks.
The actual move it's trying is mv /somefolder/export//somefolder/storage/...
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here-document basename conflicts?
I am using EOF to generate bash scripts that run the Rscripts. In the Rscript I used basename to specify the output file name.
When I use EOF to generate a list of bash scripts, I could not get ...
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How can I use an argument from xargs to evaluate another expression?
I would like to evaluate a basename expression given an argument from xargs.
I tested:
find . -name '*.txt' | xargs -I f cp f DIR_OUT/copied_$(basename f)
which gives no file or directory because $(...
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How to debug my script?
This script name is hello
for i in $(ls $*);do
x=$(echo $(basename $i".md"));
pandoc $i -t "latex" -o $x.pdf;
done
When I write this
$ ./hello *bye.md
This error
ls: cannot access 'test': ...
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basename extra operand error [duplicate]
I have a script that will try to extract the file's base name and then I do additional work with it. Only when using this script with a file with this naming convention (including spaces and ...
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Get container directory more easily
I have a bash script here:
$GOPATH/
src/
build.sh
and in build.sh I have:
export GOPATH="$(cd $(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE") && pwd)"
is there a shorter way to get the containing dir ...
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Using bash, resolve absolute path to relative path
Say I have this simple bash script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
file="$1";
if [ -z "$file" ]; then
echo "Must pass relative file path as the first argument.";
fi
git_root=`git rev-parse --show-...
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How to get the filename part of a path from a shell variable
A shell variable holds a path. How does one get its filename portion?
In bash(1), I experimented and found that I can do it with ."${i/*\///}" where i is the name of the environment variable. Such a ...
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Find with absolute path inside a bashscript | xargs basename
I have to find recursively inside a bash script. Since I can invoke the bash script from anywhere, I am forced to use the absolute path. Sometimes the absolute path can get very long, and the output ...
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How to get the filename of a symlink destination in a shell script?
let's say the scriptname is myscript. It's a symbolic link to thescript_1.91.sh
Is there a way to get the name of the link destination?
An example:
I want to write in a logfile
cat <<EOF
####...
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Sorting out directories by searching certain file extension
Let say, I am in a directory A, under A there are many folders (B, C, D, etc.), and in each folder there is a file "*.out" and sub-folders. I want to run a script from A which will look for the text "...
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Bash for file processing [duplicate]
I am writing a bash script to move all images into a central file.
I create the list of image files with:
img_fil='/home/files/img_dump.txt'
locate -i image | grep \.jpg > "$img_fil"
locate -i ...
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Concatenate pwd and basename [closed]
I want to assign the path and file name to a variable:
/path/to/myfile/file.txt
For example
MYFILE=$(pwd)$(basename)
How can i do it ?
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can't get an "awk for loop" to work, while using basename
I have many xyz files that I want to run through awk. I just want to create a new file with an "_s" appended, for each one. Having a little trouble getting the basename syntax correct. Here is what I ...
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dirname and basename vs parameter expansion
Is there any objective reason to prefer one form to the other? Performance, reliability, portability?
filename=/some/long/path/to/a_file
parentdir_v1="${filename%/*}"
parentdir_v2="$(dirname "$...
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How do you call the "happy-dog" part of file "happy-dog.png"?
I just realized I don't know how file is called in file.ext.
The whole file.ext is called a file or filename, ext is called extension but how do you call the file part itself of file.ext?
For ...
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Rename mp3 file names to a pattern
I have a list of like names likes so:
/A/B/C/D/E/F/filename_album1-003.mp3
its more like album\d+
I would like to change it to something like
/A/B/C/D/E/F/filename_song-3.mp3
song is just a ...
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basename doesn't work as expected
How do I make ".mkv" disappear in the target filename?
$ echo a/b.mkv | xargs -I % echo ffmpeg -i "%" $(basename "%" ".mkv").mp4
ffmpeg -i a/b.mkv a/b.mkv.mp4
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use basename in find -exec?
If I just use basename {} .txt, it will work:
find . -iname "*.txt" -exec basename {} .txt \;
It will just print xxx instead of ./xxx.txt
if I want use $(basename {} .txt) in the -exec option, it ...
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Extract file name from find command
I am trying to extract the file name and attaching to mail. But when I send mail the attachment is coming with path name and file name.
Ex: dir=/home/as123/bill and filename=abc.pdf.Z and I am ...
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Problems with basename in a loop
I am new at shell script programming and I'm trying to execute a software that reads a text and perform it's POS tagging. It requires an input and an output, as can be seen in the execute example:
$ ...
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Remove multiple possible suffixes
Example: I want to create a quick command to shrink images (for my filebrowser).
...
FN="/tmp/some-image.jpg"
gm convert "$FN" -resize 50% "$(dirname $FN)/$(basename $FN .jpg/png/gif).jpg"
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How ...
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Use basename to parse a list of paths held in a file
I'm running Mac OSX and trying to use the command line to find the number of files I have with the same name.
I tried to use the following command:
find ~ -type f -name "*" -print | basename | sort ...
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Basename gives extra operand error
I 'm using the following script to merge few pcap files into one using mergecap command.
But when I run it it gives me a 'basename: extra operand /mnt/md0/capture/DCN/dcn_2014_02_04_00_11_47_598.pcap' ...
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shellcheck is advising not to use basename: why?
I am trying out shellcheck.
I have something like that
basename "${OPENSSL}"
and I get the following suggestion
Use parameter expansion instead, such as ${var##*/}.
From the practical point of ...
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Bash shell scripting basic question regarding the syntax and basename
Consider the script below:
myname=`basename $0`;
for i in `ls -A`
do
if [ $i = $myname ]
then
echo "Sorry i won't rename myself"
else
newname=`echo $i |tr a-z A-Z`
mv $i $newname
fi
done
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Inner function call with xargs parameters
I am trying to create a file occurent within my /tmp directory of each file containing a speicific string.
The problem is that the call to basename {} does not seem to work. Neither this, neither ...
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Execute on the basename of a find command
Suppose I have a directory structure as follows
test
test/a
test/b
Now I want to execute a command, such that in the . folder I can execute a command on the basename of the files a and b.
So ...
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