/usr/bin/mc --help prints stupid path

Egmont Koblinger egmont at uhulinux.hu
Thu Nov 11 17:10:14 UTC 2004


Hi,

"/usr/bin/mc --help" prints this:

Usage: usr/bin/mc [flags] [this_dir] [other_panel_dir]
       ^^^

Only the leading slash is stipped, which doesn't make too much sense.

Trivial patch is attached, fixes both 4.6.0 and 2004-11-04-05 snapshot.


bye,

-- 
Egmont
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diff -Naur mc-4.6.0.orig/src/popthelp.c mc-4.6.0/src/popthelp.c
--- mc-4.6.0.orig/src/popthelp.c	2002-10-24 12:02:40.000000000 +0200
+++ mc-4.6.0/src/popthelp.c	2004-11-11 00:20:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
     fprintf(f, _("Usage:"));
     if (!(con->flags & POPT_CONTEXT_KEEP_FIRST)) {
 	fn = con->optionStack->argv[0];
-	if (strchr(fn, '/')) fn = strchr(fn, '/') + 1;
+	if (strchr(fn, '/')) fn = strrchr(fn, '/') + 1;
 	fprintf(f, " %s", fn);
 	len += strlen(fn) + 1;
     }


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