On 01/13/2011 07:59 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote: > * Jim Meyering (j...@meyering.net) [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!
That's the whole point of the BSD -a/-s options, and extensible to our proposal for --files0-from. basename str1 str2: POSIX behavior (str2 is suffix) basename -a str1 str2: filter behavior, print basenames of both str1 and str2 without suffix basename -s suffix: filter mode, reads from stdin, and chops suffix basename: filter mode, reads from stdin basename -s str2 str1: explicit suffix, same as basename str1 str2 basename -s suffix str1 str2: filter behavior, print basenames of both str1 and str2 without suffix basename -a -s suffix str1 str2: same (-a is only required for exactly two arguements, and is implied for 0 or for more than 2 args) basename --files0-from=file -s suffix: filter mode, input is NUL rather than newline terminated, so output is NUL terminated as well -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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