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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg
Subject: Re: basename(1) surprise
Message-ID: <1050@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 09:14:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1050
Posted: Wed Aug 28 09:14:54 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Sep-85 06:40:47 EDT
References: <1217@hcrvx1.UUCP> <239@ivax.icdoc.UUCP>
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
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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.]

Funny; "basename" version 1.4 (SVR2 VAX) has the problem Hugh reported.