Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson <at> gmail.com> writes: > > You can find a shell function to replace the external basename > command at: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell/scripts/basename-sh>.
Except that your example is not POSIX-compliant. POSIX requires 'basename -- -a' to print '-a', not '--'. Also, on platforms where // is special (such as cygwin), 'basename //' and 'basename // /' should print '//', not '/', to match the behavior of the basename program on those platforms. -- Eric Blake
