From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: basename(1) bug fixed 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2483
Posted: Tue Sep 21 19:24:56 1982
Received: Tue Sep 21 19:24:56 1982

Cleared up a long-standing bug in basename(1):  it malfunctioned if
the first argument was actually a suffix of the second, for example:

	basename c .c

gave an empty line.