Hot Diggety! Richard Chycoski was rumored to have written:
>
> Do a 'which basename', it should point to /usr/bin/basename. On the
> Solaris 7 system that I checked, it is a 901 byte shell script dated Oct
> 6 1998. It has a sum of '3031 2'. (I'm not including the script here
> because it is copyrighted by AT&T).
I had forgotten basename was a script prior to Solaris 10 -- good catch.
(Starting in Sol10, it's a binary executable file.)
Well, given the Solaris 7 basename is a script, one could do:
$ sh -x /usr/bin/basename [<any args used>]
...to see what it's doing when it goes 'funky'.
-Dan
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