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From:	klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de
To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Problem with basename
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:13:48 +0100
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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?

many thanks in advance!
Klaus


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