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authorErik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-05-10 05:00:31 +0000
committerErik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-05-10 05:00:31 +0000
commitac130e1dca289c431c43b6efee4b3d9f2b367c87 (patch)
tree380b189440ddc169cd4d9435147d8991da08aab2 /docs
parent0a027e6880762bfe24ffda94e5872710820ecc9d (diff)
downloadbusybox-ac130e1dca289c431c43b6efee4b3d9f2b367c87.tar.gz
Add suffix stripping support to basename
-Erik
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/busybox.pod9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/busybox.pod b/docs/busybox.pod
index 6a18a0499..ea14459ef 100644
--- a/docs/busybox.pod
+++ b/docs/busybox.pod
@@ -71,9 +71,10 @@ uname, uniq, update, uptime, usleep, wc, whoami, yes, zcat, [
=item basename
-Usage: basename [file ...]
+Usage: basename FILE [SUFFIX]
-Strips directory path and suffixes from FILE(s).
+Strips directory path and suffixes from FILE.
+If specified, also removes any trailing SUFFIX.
Example:
@@ -81,6 +82,8 @@ Example:
foo
$ basename /usr/local/bin/
bin
+ $ basename /foo/bar.txt .txt
+ bar
-------------------------------
@@ -1878,4 +1881,4 @@ Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
=cut
-# $Id: busybox.pod,v 1.28 2000/05/05 19:49:33 erik Exp $
+# $Id: busybox.pod,v 1.29 2000/05/10 05:00:31 erik Exp $