GNU bug report logs - #9450
Bug report on 'dirname' : when jokers match several files

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Laurent TARRISSE" <ltarrisse <at> midilibre.com>

Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: wyrm <at> haell.com
To: 9450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9450: Bug report on 'dirname' : when jokers match several files
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 07:10:23 -0700

On 2011-09-07 at 09:21:45 +0200, ltarrisse <at> midilibre.com wrote:
> Yes, my script doesn't care about the return code. I use the dirname
> to extract the path from a given file, and then do a 'cd' command to
> that path :
>     MY_PATH=`dirname $1`
>     cd $MY_PATH
> As you say, HP-UX dirname returns 1, but neveetheless outputs the path
> of the first argument, and it's just what I expected him to do ! :))

Place some quotes around the argument, so that the variable will expand
but the glob won't. Something like:
	MY_PATH=`dirname "$1"`
will probably do what you expect.

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