**Jessica** @ticky@mastodon.social · Oct 18, 2017, 18:19

**Jessica** @ticky@mastodon.social · Oct 18, 2017, 18:19

the unix philosophy: everything does one thing and can be composed with everything else if you know the arcane ways they don’t cooperate https://mastodon.social/media/Qp262T0y9uLJ3c-Du5Y

**Ariel Millennium Thornton** @arielmt@computerfairi.es · 2017-10-21T19:13:12Z

Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@ticky That's actually GNU living up to the "GNU's Not Unix" moniker. :3c

FreeBSD basename actually works as expected in all three examples instead of keeling over the way GNU basename does without the -a switch.