Re: /usr/bin/dirname - it screams to be made REALLY usable

[Frank Schruefer]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

As I said later in that post: dirname is *not* buggy.
It's just not very useful the way it is and I'd like
to add some command-line options to it.

> > 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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Thanks,
  Frank