basename(1) surprise

[Jan-Simon Pendry]

In article <1217 at hcrvx1.UUCP> hugh at hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier) writes:
>Under System V the "suffix" operand of basename is a regular expression
> ... if the programmer fails to
>quote the dot twice (once for the shell, and once for basename's
>pattern matcher) it will match any character.  Thus
>	basename cccc .c
>yields
>	cc

Not on my System V machines!  The example above prints "cccc".
Of course - it could be the particular implementation but I see no
need for a manufacturer to alter a shell script.  [The software
is based on SysVr2 for Vax.]
-- 
Jan-Simon Pendry
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