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Re: bug in dirname loadable?

From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: bug in dirname loadable?
Date 2018-12-26 12:35 -0500
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <mailman.6322.1545845740.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References <CABrM6wmOxFYgi=aH5b4sSCVBSDQN54hp98hmhPrRKL3Swm0HHg@mail.gmail.com>

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On 12/24/18 10:35 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> dirname loadable gives the following error. I think the coreutils'
> direname's convention is better. Should it be considered as a bug to
> fix?
> 
> $ dirname -- -a
> dirname: usage: dirname string
> $(type -P dirname) -- -a
> .

Yes, dirname should skip over a `--' denoting the end of options. Thanks
for the report.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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Re: bug in dirname loadable? Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-12-26 12:35 -0500

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