Hi Pander,
Thank you for your response. But there are some of your examples that
look like they are slightly misconstrued: the syntax for 'basename' is
'basename <file name> <suffix>'. So -- although syntactically correct --
your current functionality examples leave me wit a bit of a taste of a
incorrect call.
More importantly, the first example on the suggested functionality does
not make much of a sense to me:
basename --prefix /this/is/a/sample/atest /this/is/a/sample/atest-data.filename
-data.filename
Here's the reason: basename strips directories from a provided file
name. As such, it does not (for me) make sense to have a prefix that
includes directory parts (since there will be none in the returning
string). The prefix *could* be given as shown, but it would never match
(very much like giving an incorrect suffix).
Can you please clarify what you would like by this first example?
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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Option for basename to strip prefix in stead of suffix
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173211
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