On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:29:05PM +0200, you wrote:
On 2010-05-06 08:16:50 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
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"

I understand that, which I why I suggested that busybox change. AFAICT the vast majority of (living) implementations don't behave the way you're suggesting they should, and it seems unlikely that all of them will change.

Mike Stone



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