The current command-line usage of basename(1) doesn't let you specify many filenames at once. This stops you saying
% find . | xargs basename
(unless you use xargs -n 1, and that is slow). Perhaps there
could be a new usage
basename --many FILE...
to print the basename of each FILE in turn.
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Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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