shell script to find file name from its path

Question

Hello i want a simple shell script that find the name of the file from a given path of the file. like

$path = "/var/www/html/test.php";

then i want to get value "test" in some variable. Also only .php files are present.I am using bash shell. Thanks

Answer 1

Try:

path="/var/www/html/test.php"
name=$(basename "$path" ".php")
echo "$name"

The quotes are only there to prevent problems when $path contains spaces.