basename - Online Linux Manual PageSection : 3
Updated : 2023-02-05
Source : Linux man-pages 6.03
NAMEbasename, dirname − parse pathname components
LIBRARYStandard C library (libc, −lc)
SYNOPSIS#include <libgen.h>char *dirname(char *path);
char *basename(char *path);
DESCRIPTIONWarning: there are two different functions basename(); see below. The functions dirname() and basename() break a null-terminated pathname string into directory and filename components. In the usual case, dirname() returns the string up to, but not including, the final '/', and basename() returns the component following the final '/'. Trailing '/' characters are not counted as part of the pathname. If path does not contain a slash, dirname() returns the string "." while basename() returns a copy of path. If path is the string "/", then both dirname() and basename() return the string "/". If path is a null pointer or points to an empty string, then both dirname() and basename() return the string ".". Concatenating the string returned by dirname(), a "/", and the string returned by basename() yields a complete pathname. Both dirname() and basename() may modify the contents of path, so it may be desirable to pass a copy when calling one of these functions. These functions may return pointers to statically allocated memory which may be overwritten by subsequent calls. Alternatively, they may return a pointer to some part of path, so that the string referred to by path should not be modified or freed until the pointer returned by the function is no longer required. The following list of examples (taken from SUSv2) shows the strings returned by dirname() and basename() for different paths: path dirnamebasename /usr/lib/usrlib /usr/ /usr usr .usr / // . .. .. ...
RETURN VALUEBoth dirname() and basename() return pointers to null-terminated strings. (Do not pass these pointers to free(3).)
ATTRIBUTESFor an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). InterfaceAttributeValue basename(), dirname() Thread safetyMT-Safe
STANDARDSPOSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
NOTESThere are two different versions of basename() - the POSIX version described above, and the GNU version, which one gets after #define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <string.h>"The GNU version never modifies its argument, and returns the empty string when path has a trailing slash, and in particular also when it is "/". There is no GNU version of dirname(). With glibc, one gets the POSIX version of basename() when <libgen.h> is included, and the GNU version otherwise.
BUGSIn the glibc implementation, the POSIX versions of these functions modify the path argument, and segfault when called with a static string such as "/usr/". Before glibc 2.2.1, the glibc version of dirname() did not correctly handle pathnames with trailing '/' characters, and generated a segfault if given a NULL argument.
EXAMPLESThe following code snippet demonstrates the use of basename() and dirname(): char *dirc, *basec, *bname, *dname;
char *path = "/etc/passwd";
dirc = strdup(path);
basec = strdup(path);
dname = dirname(dirc);
bname = basename(basec);
printf("dirname=%s, basename=%s\n", dname, bname);
SEE ALSObasename(1), dirname(1) 0
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