ls /some/path/*dat | xargs -n 1 -I @ sh -c "echo `basename @`"

/some/path/a
/some/path/b
/some/path/c
/some/path/d

a
b
c
d

echo `basename @`

octave --silent --eval "somefunction('`basename @`','@',...))"

ls ~/phd/data/conll2012/dev.megam/*dat | xargs -P 16 -n 1 -I@ timeout -k 1s 15m sh -c "if [ ! -f '~/phd/xp/conll2012/dev.megam/@.$epsilon$mink$minn$alpha' ]; then octave --silent --eval "xprp('~/phd/xp/conll2012/dev.megam/@.$epsilon$mink$minn$alpha.rp','@',$alpha,$mink,$minn,$epsilon);" 2>> ~/xpgrid.log;fi"

parallel echo {/} ::: /some/path/*dat

parallel octave --silent --eval ""somefunction('{/}', '{}', ...)"" ::: /some/path/*dat

ls /some/path/*dat | xargs -n 1 -I @ sh -c 'echo `basename "@"`'

# find all my perl file names with *.pl or *.pm ext sorted
 find src/ -name '*.pm' -o -name '*.pl'
  | xargs -n 1 -I @ sh -c 'echo `basename "@"`' | sort