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When working in a Linux or Unix environment, command-line tools like basename and dirname are fundamental for handling file paths. They become especially handy when you’re writing shell scripts or automating tasks that involve navigating or manipulating directory structures. These tools are part of a powerful suite of utilities that make scripting in Linux so flexible and effective. If you’re a fan of elegant, concise Bash tricks, you might also appreciate the tips shared in 3 Bash One-Liners, which help streamline your command-line workflow.

Understanding these commands also pairs well with learning how symbolic links function, a topic we covered extensively in this article on symbolic links. Together, these utilities give you fine control over your file system paths and behaviors. In this article, we’ll go over both basename and dirname, and demonstrate practical examples that you can try right away.

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When working with both Bash and Zsh, it can be incredibly helpful to maintain a consistent shell environment across both. Whether you’re scripting, switching between shells for different projects, or simply exploring alternatives, having the same aliases, PATH settings, and functions available in each shell saves time and reduces confusion. This guide explains a practical and portable approach for achieving this.

Before diving into the steps, you might also be interested in improving your command-line skills with articles like this trick to filter running processes with grep, or learning how to gather system hardware information via the CLI. These tools are made even more powerful when your shell environment is unified across platforms.

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Mozilla is sunsetting the Pocket and Fakespot services to focus on building a faster, smarter, and more independent Firefox browser.

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After a long break, the Terminator 2.1.5 Linux terminal app brings new features like split-session SSH cloning, reverse search, and UI fixes.

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Monado’s first stable release of 2025 is here. From enhanced Android support and driver updates to improved runtime stability and tooling, Collabora’s XR team delivered a wide array of improvements for the cross-platform, open source OpenXR runtime.

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After 25 years, 329 issues, and thousands of pages, Linux Format, a leading UK magazine dedicated to Linux and open-source software, ends its journey.

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The iRasptek Raspberry Pi 5 8GB Starter Kit gives you everything you need to get started with your adventures with the Pi 5. Read our review.

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Archinstall 3.0.7 is here to introduce a new option in the disk configuration menu that lets users configure a Btrfs snapshot type that can be set to either Snapper or Timeshift when choosing to install Arch Linux with the Btrfs file system. This release also moves the disk encryption configuration into the disk config menu.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 139 open-source email client lands with granular notification controls, message actions in alerts, folder sorting, and more.

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KaOS Linux 2025.05 drops Qt5 by default, embraces Qt6 across the board, and ships with Plasma 6.3.5, KDE Gear 25.04.1, and Frameworks 6.14.

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Fedora 43 moves to a Wayland-only GNOME experience, officially removing support for the X11 session due to a lack of upstream maintenance.

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The upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) brings GNOME 49, VRR, and new default apps like Loupe image viewer and Ptyxis terminal.

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Windows Journal is a note-taking application that allows users to create and organize handwritten notes and drawings and save them. Journal is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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For Linux gamers, the new Steam Client update adds support for automatically installing the Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data when necessary, improves support for game recordings that contain a green bar on the right side of the image when using HEVC encoding on AMD systems if the game window width isn’t a multiple of 64, and improves Game Recording and Remote Play video streams that show green frames when capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs.

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The open source ISA RISC-V has long been making inroads into Linux distributions, but this week Enterprise Linux distros got on board en masse.

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Mule ESB (Mule Enterprise Service Bus) is a lightweight, Java-based platform that helps the integration of various applications and systems. It acts as an integration platform, allowing developers to connect applications quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data and collaborate seamlessly.

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Arriving about five weeks after PipeWire 1.4.2, the PipeWire 1.4.3 release brings many netJACK2 improvements, including fixes for the driver/manager roles, better error handling, support for sending custom commands, support for using the default value of filters, and support for correctly writing MIDI streams.

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In this second article of a three-part series, I look at how Matt Godbolt uses modern C++ features to try to protect against misusing an API that deals with destructive state transition based on a talk he gave on making code easy to use and hard to misuse.

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Fwupd 2.0.10 brings AGESA version summaries, UEFI PK key ID reporting, and support for popular peripherals from Lenovo, Logitech, and Poly.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.

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