Extract file basename without path and extension in bash [duplicate]
You don't have to call the external basename command. Instead, you could use the following commands:
$ s=/the/path/foo.txt$ echo "${s##*/}"foo.txt$ s=${s##*/}$ echo "${s%.txt}"foo$ echo "${s%.*}"fooNote that this solution should work in all recent (post 2004) POSIX compliant shells, (e.g. bash, dash, ksh, etc.).
Source: Shell Command Language 2.6.2 Parameter Expansion
More on bash String Manipulations: http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue18/bash.html
The basename command has two different invocations; in one, you specify just the path, in which case it gives you the last component, while in the other you also give a suffix that it will remove. So, you can simplify your example code by using the second invocation of basename. Also, be careful to correctly quote things:
fbname=$(basename "$1" .txt)echo "$fbname"