Shell Scripting: basename variable

"${0##*/}" is the equivalent of "basename $0".
I.e. From /usr/bin/sh we get just sh.


Also try this to execute commands $(shell command)

Using awk to remove path and print file date

$ls -lat /current/*xml | \
         nawk '{printf "%s ", $8; system("basename " $9)}'

20:24 file1.xml

21:44 file2.xml

22:34 file3.xml
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