Re: basename sucks

[Eric Blake]

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According to Alfred M. Szmidt on 2/1/2007 6:21 AM:
> You won't be able to specify the suffix to remove if it is going to
> behave like a filter, unless you add a option for that.
> 
> $ echo foo.h | basename --suffix=.h
> foo

Furthermore, with a --suffix option, we could also allow multiple command
line arguments, another usage case that might prove useful:

$ basename --suffix=.h foo.h bar.h
foo
bar
$

All great ideas, but who is willing to code them?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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