Make perl replacement for dirname, for system that lack the latter.

PR: 81

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util/dirname.pl b/util/dirname.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7a66d96ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/dirname.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
+
+if ($#ARGV < 0) {
+    die "dirname.pl: too few arguments\n";
+} elsif ($#ARGV > 0) {
+    die "dirname.pl: too many arguments\n";
+}
+
+my $d = $ARGV[0];
+
+if ($d =~ m|.*/.*|) {
+    $d =~ s|/[^/]*$||;
+} else {
+    $d = ".";
+}
+
+print $d,"\n";
+exit(0);