On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:52:04AM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > Bug or feature: > I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do > not handle spaces in file names and paths.
They do : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ianw]$ basename "/this is/a path/with / spaces" spaces are you quoting correctly? -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug