On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:27:16 -0400 Kurt H Maier <karmaf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius > <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/23/11, Rob <robpill...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> One more thing, we're not bothering with the -- flag, are we? > > We should, if only for the sake of portable scripts. We may not need > > or want full POSIX, but we should at least support general conventions > > used by properly written scripts. > > POSIX flags never start with --. > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html The point of the “--” ‘flag’ is to tell the program to not interpret following arguments as options. Robert Ransom
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