[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Schruefer) writes: > Hy, > > At first: > > dirname /home/merlin/whatever/../another > delivers: > /home/merlin/whatever/..
That's how dirname is specified by POSIX. > dirname /home/merlin/whatever/text\/stuff.txt > delivers: > /home/merlin/whatever/text That's equivalent to dirname /home/merlin/whatever/text/stuff.txt so completely correct. If you mean dirname /home/merlin/whatever/text\\/stuff.txt then you should write that. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra�e 5, 90409 N�rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
