Re: ANNOUNCE: Optik 1.3 released

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> All programs which use the normal command-line parsers understand "--"
> as the standard workaround for this bug. That's not an rm-specific feature
> either; it even works with shell scripts.  ;-)

Depends in what Unix-world you live. I once had this problem on a Solaris box,
and even rm -- -myfile would not work.
Also, as far as I know, the standard getopt does not include the '--' as 'end
of option processing'. I believe it is a GNU-invention/extension, just like
long options (i.e. the GNU version of getopt recognizes '--').
Therefore, on e.g. Linux, rm -- -myfile works.

(but you'd have to look in the POSIX standard for the final answer).


Maybe we need a --allow-- flag in our option processing package :-)


Albert
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