AW: Problem with basename

[klaus.berndl@sdm.de]

No, i don´t have any special characters in the filenames.
And renaming $file in $F doesn´t help too.

Hmm, very mysterious!

Thanks,
Klaus

> 
> klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote:
> > 
> > i have written the following function:
> > 
> >     function check-el-compile ()
> >     {
> >         for file in $*; do
> >             elcfile=`basename $file .el`.elc
> >             if [ ! -f "$elcfile" ]; then
> >                 missinglist="$missinglist $file"
> >             fi
> >         done
> >         echo "Not compiled Files: $missinglist"
> >         unset el elc missinglist
> >     }
> > 
> > This function checks which of the passed *.el files are not 
> compiled, i.e. the file <basename>.elc
> > does not exist. Example: abc.el is compiled if abc.elc 
> exists in the same directory.
> > 
> > Now the problem: if i pass the *.el files as argument to 
> this function all is working fine.
> > But if i write the functon like follows:
> > 
> >     function check-el-compile ()
> >     {
> >         for file in `ls *.el`; do
> >             # same as above.
> > 
> > then the basename call doesn´t work, i.e. it always returns $file.
> > It seems that the output of ls contains "something" which 
> confuses basename?!
> > 
> > Any ideas what can be the problem?
> > 
> 
> Not really.  Do you have any *.el files with whitespace characters or
> any non alphanumeric characters in the filename?
> 
> You could modify your script to have the for loop call the 
> function.  I
> would also not use the work `file' as a variable name.  I would change
> it to `File' or just F to prevent confusion with the executable of the
> same name.
> 
> Earnie.
> 
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