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bug#6123: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with


From: Vincent Lefevre
Subject: bug#6123: basename/dirname are not POSIX compliant on arg starting with a dash
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:31:45 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20-6083-vl-r35499 (2010-04-24)

A practical example of a failure could be when one uses

  dirname "$0"

in a rc file and the shell happens to be a login shell.

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