basename: Fix handling of repeated flags/arguments #6018
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This fixes several GNU behavior bugs around repeated arguments. In my eyes, the parsing code is now simpler, too.
Note in particular that
args_override_self
would NOT work here, since it would in all cases causeoptions::NAME
to override itself, or interfere withtrailing_var_arg
.This fixes #5998 for the special case of basename.
Notes on the GNU documentation bug
The GNU basename help suggests that
-z
immediately implies "multi-name mode", because it cannot appear in the first pattern:However, that is evidently wrong:
If
-z
would imply multi-name mode, this should have interpretedl
as a second file name, but it was obviously parsed as the suffix-to-be-removed.Hence a bug in the
--help
string. And that's why I also changed ourbasename.md
.