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Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 6:57 PM
Subject: bug in basename ?
>
> In using basename I ran across the following condition
> that seems to be incorrect:
>
> basename a.b/c .b
>
> Produces:
> c
>
>
> info basename says that the suffix is removed only
> if it is identical to the END of the name.
> Am I reading this incorrectly?
Yes, but only half of it. The first sentence says:
`basename' removes any leading directory components from NAME.
So, "a.b/c" becomes just "c". Afterwards the suffix is checked for a
possible match.
Greetings
Uwe
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