How can I make ls and xargs combined omit path

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Published on 2013-10-22T17:13:12Z Indexed on 2013/10/23 3:57 UTC
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I have a folder called lib. In that folder are some files. I want to obtain all the names of the files that end in .jar, and concatenate them into a line, separated by spaces. I don't want the path name at all.

I've tried this:

ls lib/*.jar | xargs

and the output is

lib/file1.jar lib/file2.jar

But what I'm trying to get is

file1.jar file2.jar

How can I do this?

I've also tried find but I get the same problem

find lib -name *.jar | xargs

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