4.36 File System Interaction
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  • Documentation
    • Reference manual
      • Built-in Predicates
        • File System Interaction
          • access_file/2
          • exists_file/1
          • file_directory_name/2
          • file_base_name/2
          • same_file/2
          • exists_directory/1
          • delete_file/1
          • rename_file/2
          • size_file/2
          • time_file/2
          • absolute_file_name/2
          • absolute_file_name/3
          • is_absolute_file_name/1
          • file_name_extension/3
          • directory_files/2
          • expand_file_name/2
          • prolog_to_os_filename/2
          • read_link/3
          • tmp_file/2
          • tmp_file_stream/3
          • make_directory/1
          • delete_directory/1
          • working_directory/2
          • chdir/1
    • Packages
Availability:built-in
file_base_name(+Path, -File)
Extracts the file name part from a path. Similar to file_directory_name/2 the extraction is based on the regex /*([^/]*)/*$, now capturing the non-/ segment. If the segment is empty it unifies File with / if Path starts with / and the empty atom ('') otherwise. The behaviour is consistent with the POSIX basename program.154Before SWI-Prolog 7.7.13, if argPath ended with a / File was unified with the empty atom.