Jeff Blaine wrote: > The following fails: > echo /some/place/foo.txt | basename
As Eric noted, basename requires an argument. > This also fails: > find /somewhere -print | xargs basename Why did that fail? Are you also getting an error message from find? You usually want to include the xargs -r option if you think it might not have any input at all. find /somewhere -print | xargs -r basename > This *does* work though, somehow, when the above does not: > echo /some/place/foo.txt | xargs basename That will invoke basename with one argument. Which is fine. You can verify what xargs will do by calling echo first. find /somewhere -print | xargs echo basename echo /some/place/foo.txt | xargs echo basename Bob
