I haven't figured out your basename problem other than to observe that I
can reproduce it on Solaris as well. "basename" and "/bin/basename"
produced the same results, so the built-in and the program were alike.
As far as your ACTUAL problem doing the symlinks is concerned, you can just
OMIT the second argument of "ln -s TARGET LINK" and you will get the
basename of TARGET as the name of the link.
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Chris Abbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: basename in backticks
>
> At 18:28 10/22/00 +1000, Tony Nugent wrote:
> >On Sat Oct 21 2000 at 18:47, Chris Abbey wrote:
> > > ln -s $fil `basename $fil`
> >
> >Try it like this instead:
> >
> > ls -s $fil $(basename $fil)
>
> no difference. :(
>
> the real command (in case it matters) is:
> find $r/$c/$d ! -type d -exec ln -s {} $(basename {}) \;
>
>
> although you can demonstrate it with this:
> find -exec echo `basename {}` \;
>
> I'm starting to suspect it's an issue with find... perhaps with the
> choice of shell it's using for the -exec command, since as you point
> out basename is a bash builtin.
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