Discussed at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-01/msg00080.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-01/msg00080... Summary of that

Discussed at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-01/msg00080.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-01/msg00080... Summary of that is you can filter using xargs like: get_file_paths | xargs basename -a No point having two ways to do something, especially when there are caveats about enabling stdin processing