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.