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Hi Pander,
Thank you for your response. But there are some of your examples that look like they are slightly misconstrued: the syntax for 'basename' is 'basename <file name> <suffix>'. So -- although syntactically correct -- your current functionality examples leave me wit a bit of a taste of a incorrect call.
More importantly, the first example on the suggested functionality does not make much of a sense to me:
basename --prefix /this/is/
-data.filename
Here's the reason: basename strips directories from a provided file name. As such, it does not (for me) make sense to have a prefix that includes directory parts (since there will be none in the returning string). The prefix *could* be given as shown, but it would never match (very much like giving an incorrect suffix).
Can you please clarify what you would like by this first example?