Adding upstream version 5.2.15.upstream/5.2.15upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+# Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 11:22:36 edt
+# From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu
+# To: bfox@gnu.ai.mit.edu
+
+# A replacement for basename(1).  Not all the systems I use have this
+# program.  Usage: basename [path] {extension}
+function basename ()
+{
+ local path="$1"
+ local suffix="$2"
+ local tpath="${path%/}"
+
+    # Strip trailing '/' characters from path (unusual that this should
+    # ever occur, but basename(1) seems to deal with it.)
+    while [ "${tpath}" != "${path}" ]; do
+       tpath="${path}"
+       path="${tpath%/}"
+    done
+
+    path="${path##*/}"       # Strip off pathname
+    echo ${path%${suffix}}   # Also strip off extension, if any.
+}
+