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Re: basename '' semantics
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: basename '' semantics |
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Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:14:52 -0600 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Currently, coreutils returns ''. I don't want to change this unless
> anyone else thinks it should be changed for compatibility. Comments?
If you are worried about compatibility then you would need to keep it
emitting nothing for '' and exiting successfully because that is what
legacy implementations such as HP-UX do.
Bob