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. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/