In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 5 Jun
2002 08:05:10 -0700 (PDT), Doug Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
dkaufman> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Richard Levitte via RT wrote:
dkaufman>
dkaufman> > Can I assume that sed exists and works properly? dirname can be
dkaufman> > coded like this:
dkaufman> >
dkaufman> > echo $$i | sed -e 's|[^/]*$||' -e 's|/$||'
dkaufman> >
dkaufman> > If that's guaranteed to work everywhere, that seems to be a good
dkaufman> > candidate for a 'dirname $$i' replacement...
dkaufman>
dkaufman> This won't work in systems where an initial "/" doesn't
dkaufman> signify an absolute path. Windows and DOS based systems may
dkaufman> start with a "\" or with [a-zA-Z]:[\\/] for absolute
dkaufman> path.
Good point.
dkaufman> DJGPP and Cygwin have their own dirname applications (from
dkaufman> GNU shell utilities), so this shouldn't be a problem for them.
You're saying we should try to find the real dirname and use it, and
only have the dirname.pl hackery as a backup? That's doable, I
suppose.
dkaufman> I am not sure about other DOS/Windows based compilers. What
dkaufman> about VMS?
With VMS as well as most Windows compilers, completely different
systems are used, so they aren't an issue.
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