Bug#580492: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash

[Michael Stone]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:31:45PM +0200, you wrote:
A practical example of a failure could be when one uses
 dirname "$0"

in a rc file and the shell happens to be a login shell.

I'm not convinced of this interpretation, and suspect that 
dirname -- "$@"
would be more portable. 

Mike Stone



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