For files in directory only echo filename no path

Question

How do I go about echoing only the filename of a file if I iterate a directory with a for loop   for filename in  home user   do   echo  filename done    will pull the full path with the file name  I just want the file name

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Just use basename   echo  basename   filename     The quotes are needed in case  filename contains e g  spaces

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Another approach is to use ls when reading the file list within a directory so as to give you what you want  i e   just the file name s   As opposed to reading the full file path and then extracting the  file name  component in the body of the for loop    Example below that follows your original   for filename in   ls  home user   do   echo  filename done    If you are running the script in the same directory as the files  then it simply becomes   for filename in   ls  do   echo  filename done

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You can either use what SiegeX said above or if you aren t interested in learning using  parameter expansion  you can use  for filename in   ls  home user    do     echo  filename done

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If you want a native bash solution  for file in  home user    do   echo    file       done   The above uses Parameter Expansion which is native to the shell and does not require a call to an external binary such as basename  However  might I suggest just using find  find  home user -type f -printf   f n

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Use basename   echo   basename  foo bar stuff

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if you want filename only    for file in  home user    do          f   echo    file           filename   echo  f  cut  -d    -f 1    file has extension  it return only filename   echo  filename done   for more information about cut command see here

[bash] For files in directory, only echo filename (no path)

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