On 2008-03-28, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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 '--'.
Right; I'll fix that. Thanks for pointing it out.
> 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.
"
2. If string is "//", it is implementation-defined whether steps 3
to 6 are skipped or processed.
"
I see no reference in the spec to "// /". Can you tell me where it
is?
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