Re: basename sucks

[Matthew Woehlke]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Besically in the shell the use of dirname and basename are going to
> be less efficient because they are silly things to begin with.  It
> is a very simple operation and there are whole external commands for
> doing it?  Wow.

Yes, there are. Bourne shell(*) can't do the tricks that have been 
posted as alternatives, whereas 'basename' and 'dirname' are portable. 
Why do you think 'test' is still in coreutils? :-)

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