Re: [coreutils] basename/dirname can't handle stdin?

[Jim Meyering]

Philipp Thomas wrote:

> * Jim Meyering (address@hidden) [20110113 08:53]:
>
>> > * Add --suffix [suffix] to enable suffix killing (using
>> >   SUFFIX as the 2nd arg will no longer work going forward)
>
> Using SUFFIX as the second argument IMO has to keep working as otherwise
> you'll break tons of scripts!

What I think he meant is that we'll need a --suffix=SUFF
option to specify a suffix, since when in --filter mode,
each input will be treated as a file/dir name.

Whereas, on the command line, we'll still accept only 1 or 2 args.