Re: basename sucks (OT)

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Andreas Schwab wrote on 02-02-07 18:18:
> address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:
>
> > Then Mike's suggestion of using the shell directly is the best choice
> > for efficiency.  No process forks and everything is done internally to
> > the shell.  It should be quite fast.
> >
> >   dirname - ${foo%/*}
>
> Note that this is not a full replacement.  It doesn't correctly handle
> names without a directory component.

Reminds me of something.  This is largely off-topic, but
does anyone know of a utility FOO that takes a path or file
as input an outputs a full, absolute, rooted path?

E.g.

$> cd / && FOO /etc/termcap
/etc/termcap

$> cd /etc && FOO termcap
/etc/termcap

$> cd /etc && FOO ../etc/./termcap
/etc/termcap


bjd