To show only file name without the entire directory path

Question

ls  home user new   txt prints all txt files in that directory  However it prints the output as follows    me comp   ls  home user new   txt  home user new file1 txt     home user new file2 txt     home user new file3 txt   and so on   I want to run the ls command not from the  home user new  directory thus I have to give the full directory name  yet I want the output to be only as   me comp   ls  home user new   txt file1 txt    file2 txt    file3 txt    I don t want the entire path  Only filename is needed  This issues has to be solved using ls command  as its output is meant for another program

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Use the basename command   basename  home user new   txt

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There are several ways you can achieve this  One would be something like   for filepath in  path to dir   do     filename   basename  filepath           whatever you want to do with the file here done

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The selected answer did not work for me  as I had spaces  quotes and other strange characters in my filenames  To quote the input for basename  you should use   ls  path to my directory   xargs -n1 -I   basename        This is guaranteed to work  regardless of what the files are called

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ls whateveryouwant   xargs -n 1 basename  Does that work for you   Otherwise you can  cd  the directory  amp  amp  ls   yes  parentheses intended

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No need for Xargs and all   ls is more than enough   ls -1   txt   displays row wise

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you could add an sed script to your commandline   ls  home user new   txt   sed -r  s

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There are lots of way we can do that and simply you can try following   ls  home user new   tr   n    n    grep  txt   Another method   cd  home user new  amp  amp  ls   txt

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When you want to list names in a path but they have different file extensions  me server  var backups  ls -1   zip  amp  amp  ls -1   gz

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just hoping to be helpful to someone as old problems seem to come back every now and again and I always find good tips here   My problem was to list in a text file all the names of the    txt  files in a certain directory without path and without extension from a Datastage 7 5 sequence   The solution we used is   ls  home user new   txt   xargs -n 1 basename   cut -d     -f1  gt  name list txt

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cd dir  amp  amp  ls   will only output filenames in dir  Use ls -1 if you want one per line    Changed   to  amp  amp  as per Sactiw s comment

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I prefer the base name which is already answered by fge  Another way is    ls  home user new   txt awk -F      print  NF     one more ugly way is    ls  home user new   txt  perl -pe  s     n g  tail -1

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A fancy way to solve it is by using twice  rev  and  cut    find    -name    txt    rev   cut -d     -f1   rev

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