Re: weekly(8) isn't able to run locate.updatedb(8) anymore

[Todd C . Miller]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:56:42 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote:

> How about ditching dirname(1)?

dirname(1) handles files in the root directory as well as files
with no directory correctly, your diff does not.

E.g.

FCODES=/foo
${FCODES%/*} -> ""
dirname $FCODES -> "/"

FCODES=bar
${FCODES%/*} -> ""
dirname $FCODES -> "."

I think it best to keep dirname rather than try to reimplement it
in the shell.

 - todd