GNU bug report logs - #22128
dirname: accept file list input

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis <at> xerox.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 01:09:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis <at> xerox.com>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: dirname enhancement
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 17:31:23 +0000

I frequently need to extract the `dirname's from a list of files,
so dirname should have an option to take its input from a
file, e.g.:

dirname -f <filename>

where <filename> could be "-" for stdin.

E.g., to get a list of directories that contain a specific
file: 

find -name "xyz.dat" | dirname -f -

The same would be good for `basename' as well.

--Ken Nellis
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 215 days ago.

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