On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 11:35 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > > 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.
There is a similar problem in `basename`. Is it due to a common bug on how loadables are programmed? $ builtin basename -a -bash: basename: -a: invalid option basename: usage: basename string [suffix] $ builtin basename -- -a -- -- Regards, Peng
