On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Richard Levitte via RT wrote:
> Can I assume that sed exists and works properly? dirname can be
> coded like this:
>
> echo $$i | sed -e 's|[^/]*$||' -e 's|/$||'
>
> If that's guaranteed to work everywhere, that seems to be a good
> candidate for a 'dirname $$i' replacement...
This won't work in systems where an initial "/" doesn't signify an
absolute path. Windows and DOS based systems may start with a "\" or
with [a-zA-Z]:[\\/] for absolute path. DJGPP and Cygwin have their own
dirname applications (from GNU shell utilities), so this shouldn't
be a problem for them. I am not sure about other DOS/Windows based
compilers. What about VMS?
Doug
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