Re: [patch] get_maintainer: handle file names beginning with ./

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jan 08 2016 - 06:38:02 EST


On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 13:51 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The problem is that get_maintainer.pl doesn't work if you have a ./
> prefix on the filename.  For example, if you type:
>
>     ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ./drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c

Someone's been feeding find output to get_maintainer?

Then maybe you'd also have to consider fully qualified
file names, tilde expansion, $PWD, and probably a bunch
of other things too.