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Re: path_concat proposed cleanup for corutils
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: path_concat proposed cleanup for corutils |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Jul 2004 00:54:35 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm not sure what you intended by the `cd DIR; cat BASE' part
> of the comment for the new path_concat.
>
> The resulting file name is equivalent to what you would get by
> running (cd DIR; cat BASE), where BASE is ABASE with any file system
> prefixes and leading separators removed.
What I was trying to say is that the function returns the name F of a
file, such that the commands 'cat F' and '(cd DIR; cat BASE)' output
the same file. I see now that it isn't worded very well, though.
Perhaps the following would be better?
The resulting file name F is such that the commands "ls F" and "(cd
DIR; ls BASE)" refer to the same file, where BASE is ABASE with any
file system prefixes and leading separators removed.