On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 08:19:19 -0300 Prog Rider <[email protected]> wrote:
> "The echo utility shall not recognize the "--" argument in the manner > specified by Guideline 10 of XBD Utility Syntax Guidelines; "--" shall > be recognized as a string operand." Hey Prog (?), we read the POSIX spec very closely. The general idea is that the -- should not be interpreted for utilities that have no flags. Echo in its basic form has no flags (as specified by POSIX), but we added the -n flag. For the sake of consistency, as echo(1) now is a tool accepting flags, we decided to drop the behaviour specified by POSIX, but are very well aware this is a difficult matter of discussion. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <[email protected]>
