Both of these are correct invocations, though maybe a little
counterintuitive. Certainly the parser does not need improving (but you
are free to argue that the command-line syntax does:).
Justin Pryzby wrote:
IMO this should give a more useful error about "Missing connector
(--and?)":
$ grep-aptavail -F Package asdfadsffasdf -F Package asdfasdfasdf grep-aptavail:
asdfasdfasdf: No such file or directory
This is equivalent to
grep-aptavail -FPackage,Package asdfadsffasdf asdfasdfasdf
which is a shorthand for
grep-aptavail -FPackage asdfadsffasdf --or \
-FPackage asdfadsffasdf asdfasdfasdf
And the following should not work at all, since the second -F Package
has no pattern (which is required for the first one):
$ grep-aptavail -F Package asdfadsffasdf -F Package
And this is equivalent to
grep-aptavail -FPackage,Package asdfadsffasdf
which is a shorthand for
grep-aptavail -FPackage asdfadsffasdf --or -FPackage asdfadsffasdf
I see two possible ways to change the command-line syntax to make these
illegal:
1) forbid multiple -F's
2) forbid specifying the same field twice for an atom
I don't like either. 1) breaks backwards-compatibility from the
pre-boolean days, 2) takes too much work for too little gain (and only
solves the problem for a special case).
Thoughts?
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