How do i get just the last name in linux path name?

[vaquitasos]

In shell scripting, you sometimes just want the last name in the path, to achieve this we can use the basename command.

We have a path /usr/local/pycharm/index, we just need to use the "index" part in the script.

See what it does on the command line.

$ basename /usr/local/pycharm/index

Using it in the script, you may assign the path to a variable and use the variable name.

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Pycharm_Index=/usr/local/pycharm/index
Pycharm_Index_Base=$( basename $Pycharm_Index)
echo $Pycharm_Index_Base
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