How to extract file base name without path and extension in bash

Question

So, I've a few file names like these:

/the/path/foo.txt
bar.txt

I hope to be getting:

foo
bar

I'm trying to do this;

#!/bin/bash

fullfile=$1
fname=$(basename $fullfile)
fbname=${fname%.*}
echo $fbname

But it doesn't work. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

You don't actually have to call the external basename command. You could use the following commands,instead:

$ s=/the/path/foo.txt
$ echo ${s##*/}
foo.txt
$ s=${s##*/}
$ echo ${s%.txt}
foo
$ echo ${s%.*}
foo

Note: This solution worksin all recent (post 2004) POSIX compliant shells, (e.g. bash, dash, ksh, etc.).