Suppose you have a path to a file, for example /Users/flavio/test.txt.

Running

basename /Users/flavio/test.txt

will return the text.txt string:

If you run basename on a path string that points to a directory, you will get the last segment of the path. In this example, /Users/flavio is a directory:

The basename command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	su - Switch User
2:	sudo - Superuser Do
3:	passwd - Change Password
4:	ping - Test Network
5:	traceroute - Trace Network Path
6:	history - Command History
7:	export - Set Environment Variables
8:	crontab - Schedule Tasks
9:	alias - Create Shortcuts
10:	man - Manual Pages
11:	tar - Archive Files
12:	gzip - Compress Files
13:	gunzip - Decompress Files
14:	▶︎ basename - Strip Directory
15:	dirname - Extract Directory
16:	nano - Text Editor
17:	vim - Vi Improved Editor
18:	emacs - Text Editor
19:	ed - Line Editor
20:	How to use Netcat
21:	How to download a file from a server using the terminal