diff --git a/libbb/bb_basename.c b/libbb/bb_basename.c
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * Utility routines.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 Denis Vlasenko
+ *
+ * Licensed under GPL version 2, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+ */
+
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+const char *bb_basename(const char *name)
+{
+	const char *cp = strrchr(name, '/');
+	if (cp)
+		return cp + 1;
+	return name;
+}