Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:45:25 -0700
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/basename basename.1 basename.c
Message-ID:  <20020701154525.A25848@FreeBSD.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <200207011712.32940.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 05:12:32PM -0400
References:  <200206301340.g5UDeagQ054628@freefall.freebsd.org> <200207011712.32940.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> escriuréres
> On Sunday 30 June 2002 09:40 am, Juli Mallett wrote:
> = jmallett    2002/06/30 06:40:35 PDT
> =
> =   Modified files:
> =     usr.bin/basename     basename.1 basename.c
> =   Log:
> =   Make it possible to have this (basename(1)) perform basename(3)
> = on multiple = files. The traditional behaviour, 'basename string
> = .suffix', is preserved, however a suffix may now also be specified via
> = a getopt(3) option, -s, such that if it is specified in that way, all
> = string arguments follow. There is also a new flag, -a, which allows a
> = user to say "yes, please basename(3) on all arguments". Update manual
> = to reflect this unobtrusively.
> 
> Nice! Is there anything like this in another Unix? With the same
> option names?

Not as far as I know.  We should probably poke SUS for inclusion of at least
-a.
-- 
Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>       | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve
Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020701154525.A25848>