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Bug report on 'dirname' : when jokers match several files

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To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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Subject: bug#9450: closed (Bug report on 'dirname' : when jokers match
 several files)
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:38:01 +0000

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From: "Laurent TARRISSE" <ltarrisse <at> midilibre.com>
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Subject: Bug report on 'dirname' : when jokers match several files
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:53:10 +0200

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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

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Laurent TARRISSE <ltarrisse <at> midilibre.com>
Cc: 9450-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9450: Bug report on 'dirname' : when jokers match several
	files
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:33:30 -0700

On 09/07/11 00:21, Laurent TARRISSE wrote:
> The 'bug' appeared on Linux, because dirname doesn't output the path when
> several arguments are passed to it. :)

The same 'bug' will also appear on Solaris 10; its
dirname does the same thing as GNU/Linux's dirname.

I'm afraid you're fighting an uphill battle here.
I'd fix the script rather than expecting
other implementations to match HP-UX's quirks.

I'm marking this as "done" since I don't expect
the GNU/Linux version to change.

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