On 2010-05-06 08:16:50 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > 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.
This doesn't work with BusyBox, where dirname fails if there isn't *exactly* one argument. So, this can only be: dirname "$0" -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
