<quote who="Stuart Guthrie"> > Bug or feature: > I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do > not handle spaces in file names and paths. I guess there is a good > reason why we need to code around it - ie it would break lots of other > stuff to fix it.
... it works for me. As always with names with spaces though, you need to escape to prevent the shell parsing the string into separate arguments: basename '/spacey tmp/test file.txt' .txt test file dirname '/spacey tmp/test file.txt' /spacey tmp > Question: > Is there any /bin/sh script out there that handles this? Googling has so > far been fruitless. Looks like I might have to bsh it. Make sure your variable quoting is correct. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Software: Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
