basename¶

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Added in version historical.

Synopsis¶

Returns the last name component of a path, what is left in the string that is not 'dirname'.

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input path required		A path.

Note

The result of this filter is different from the Unix basename program; where basename for C(/foo/bar/) returns C(bar), the basename filter returns an empty string (C('')).

# To get the last name of a file path, like 'foo.txt' out of '/etc/asdf/foo.txt'.
{{ mypath | basename }}

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	str	The base name from the path provided.