Re: 38

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2010-08-28 20:54:42 +1000, Brian May wrote:
> When the solution is easy I don't see why we don't just do it.
> 
> brian@andean:~$ i="cat's meow.tar.gz"
> brian@andean:~$ echo "`basename "$i" .tar.gz`"
> cat's meow
> 
> (yes, the nested quotes don't seem to matter)

They matter if you have consecutive spaces, for instance.
And this is not sufficient:

xvii:~> i="--foo  bar.tar.gz"
xvii:~> echo "`basename "$i" .tar.gz`"
basename: invalid option -- '-'
Try `basename --help' for more information.

You need:

xvii:~> echo "`basename -- "$i" .tar.gz`"
--foo  bar

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