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how having the basename of a file or directory


From: Thierry Volpiatto
Subject: how having the basename of a file or directory
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:25:43 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2.92 (gnu/linux)

Hi all,
i didn't find any function giving the basename of a file or directory.
I use this actually:


(defun basename (fname)
  (if (file-directory-p fname)
      (let ((dirname (directory-file-name fname))) 
        (file-relative-name
         dirname (file-name-directory dirname)))
      (file-name-nondirectory fname)))

Does it exists already something i missed?

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