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I have a txt file containing names of files, but they have the address appended to them, which I don't want. eg. /path1/file1.dat /path2/file2.dat etc. what is the easiest way ...
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  1. 06-09-2011 #1
    AndrewJS
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    removing path prefix from filesnames

    I have a txt file containing names of files, but they have the address appended to them, which I don't want.

    eg.

    /path1/file1.dat
    /path2/file2.dat
    etc.

    what is the easiest way to remove the path from all the filenames in the last?
    I don't think that "basename" would be very easy to implement is it only takes on operand at a time.
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    Code:
     awk -F "/" '{print $NF}' textfile
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