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$find . -name "*.fastq" | xargs basename -s ".fastq"

i tried this but got the following error:

basename: invalid option -- 's'

I am running this in a unix server, would appreciate if you could give some guide

$basename --help
Usage: basename NAME [SUFFIX]
or: basename OPTION
Print NAME with any leading directory components removed.
If specified, also remove a trailing SUFFIX.

  --help     display this help and exit
  --version  output version information and exit

Examples:
basename /usr/bin/sort Output "sort".
basename include/stdio.h .h Output "stdio".

Report basename bugs to [email protected]
GNU coreutils home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
General help using GNU software: http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/
For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'basename invocation'
[khorseik@ntu03 output]$ basename --version
basename (GNU coreutils) 8.4
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.