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author | danny <danny@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-04-14 22:08:48 +0000 |
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committer | danny <danny@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-04-14 22:08:48 +0000 |
commit | fdf7addba7013264628f4d418fb00e73341b97cd (patch) | |
tree | 0c322ede601a9755eb018e9f932efe7016364856 /usr.bin/basename | |
parent | 630b424dc028c078fe4fc9cfd7014bc47f02ae47 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-fdf7addba7013264628f4d418fb00e73341b97cd.zip FreeBSD-src-fdf7addba7013264628f4d418fb00e73341b97cd.tar.gz |
PR: 4866
Submitted by: fenner
Make man page reflect reality.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/basename')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/basename/basename.1 | 20 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/basename/basename.1 b/usr.bin/basename/basename.1 index 796bb6b..697125c 100644 --- a/usr.bin/basename/basename.1 +++ b/usr.bin/basename/basename.1 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)basename.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/18/94 -.\" $Id$ +.\" $Id: basename.1,v 1.4 1997/02/22 19:54:11 peter Exp $ .\" .Dd April 18, 1994 .Dt BASENAME 1 @@ -52,19 +52,16 @@ deletes any prefix ending with the last slash .Ql \&/ character present in -.Ar string , +.Ar string +(after first stripping trailing slashes), and a .Ar suffix , if given. -The resulting filename is written to the standard output. -If -.Ar string -ends in the slash character, -.Ql / , -or is the same as the +The .Ar suffix -argument, -a newline is output. +is not stripped if it is identical to the remaining characters in +.Ar string . +The resulting filename is written to the standard output. A non-existent suffix is ignored. .Pp .Nm Dirname @@ -72,7 +69,8 @@ deletes the filename portion, beginning with the last slash .Ql \&/ character to the end of -.Ar string , +.Ar string +(after first stripping trailing slashes), and writes the result to the standard output. .Sh EXAMPLES The following line sets the shell variable |