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Re: /usr/bin/dirname - it screams to be made REALLY usable
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: /usr/bin/dirname - it screams to be made REALLY usable |
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Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:57:37 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Frank Schruefer) writes:
> Hy,
>
> At first:
>
> dirname /home/merlin/whatever/../another
> delivers:
> /home/merlin/whatever/..
That's how dirname is specified by POSIX.
> dirname /home/merlin/whatever/text\/stuff.txt
> delivers:
> /home/merlin/whatever/text
That's equivalent to
dirname /home/merlin/whatever/text/stuff.txt
so completely correct. If you mean
dirname /home/merlin/whatever/text\\/stuff.txt
then you should write that.
Andreas.
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