Hi
 
Here this a strange behaviour using 'dirname' with joker filename:
 
>ll  /tmp/*.out
ls: /tmp/*.out: No such file or directory
>dirname /tmp/*.out
/tmp
 
That's OK. But if several files match the argument given :
 
>ll  /home/qualiac/mdl/scriptsJDM/QuaToCov/emission/*.HL
-rw-r--r--  1 qualiac qualiac 20715696 Sep  6 02:15 /home/qualiac/mdl/scriptsJDM/QuaToCov/emission/M399111H.HL
-rw-r--r--  1 qualiac qualiac  1181326 Sep  6 02:16 /home/qualiac/mdl/scriptsJDM/QuaToCov/emission/T399111H.HL
-rw-r--r--  1 qualiac qualiac   225012 Sep  6 02:15 /home/qualiac/mdl/scriptsJDM/QuaToCov/emission/T399211H.HL
>dirname  /home/qualiac/mdl/scriptsJDM/QuaToCov/emission/*.HL
dirname: too many arguments
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
 
That's bad. If I try:
 
>dirname '/home/qualiac/mdl/scriptsJDM/QuaToCov/emission/*.HL'
/home/qualiac/mdl/scriptsJDM/QuaToCov/emission
That's OK.
 
Could 'dirname' process only its first parameter ?
 
Thanks.
 
 
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UNIX VERSION:
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>uname -a
Linux jdm-qualiac-srv-trv.midilibre.com 2.6.9-100.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 1 12:04:42 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>uname -r
2.6.9-100.ELsmp
>cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 9)
Kernel \r on an \m