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From: jsp@icdoc.UUCP (Jan-Simon Pendry)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg
Subject: Re: basename(1) surprise
Message-ID: <239@ivax.icdoc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 11:07:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: ivax.239
Posted: Thu Aug 22 11:07:25 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Aug-85 00:41:10 EDT
References: <1217@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsp@icdoc.UUCP (Jan-Simon Pendry)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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In article <1217@hcrvx1.UUCP> hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier) writes:
>Under System V the "suffix" operand of basename is a regular expression
> ... if the programmer fails to
>quote the dot twice (once for the shell, and once for basename's
>pattern matcher) it will match any character.  Thus
>	basename cccc .c
>yields
>	cc

Not on my System V machines!  The example above prints "cccc".
Of course - it could be the particular implementation but I see no
need for a manufacturer to alter a shell script.  [The software
is based on SysVr2 for Vax.]
-- 
Jan-Simon Pendry
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