Get file name from absolute path in Nodejs?

Question

How can I get the file name from an absolute path in Nodejs?

e.g. "foo.txt" from "/var/www/foo.txt"

I know it works with a string operation, like fullpath.replace(/.+\//, ''), but I want to know is there an explicit way, like file.getName() in Java?

Answer 1

Use the basename method of the path module:

path.basename('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux.html')
// returns
'quux.html'

Here is the documentation the above example is taken from..