basename feature request

[duncan brown]

if there's another avenue of contact that would go to the correct person,
please forgive me and let me know what it is.

otherwise, basename could really use a flag, one that tells you the
directory the file resides in.  i realize that sed can help you out, but
it's a pain when sed recognizes the & as a special char and your dir has
that character.

basename -d "blah/blah/blah" would be alot easier and cleaner.

-d


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