Re: basename sucks

[Brian Dessent]

dusan halicky wrote:

> This is the exact case why to do it, look at \"my\" version:
> 
> $ cat filename | basename

Arg!  Why why why do people do this nonsense?  There is *NO* reason to
use cat here.  "basename <filename" does precisely the same thing and
does not require spawning some /bin/cat program to do it.

And as already pointed out, you don't need to modify basename at all to
achieve this today, you can just do "xargs -l basename <filename".

Brian