In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:29:38PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>> Although this is a documented shortcoming, it's quite unnecessary
>> given how easy it is to fix it. Any objections to allowing '--' to
>> mean "end of env. variable assignments"?
>The orthoginal way (with grep, mv, et. al.) would be to use '==', not
>'--' as that is the problematic character.
Principle of least astonishment says that, sinec everyone else uses "--" to
indicate the end of a series of "options", that's what env should do too.
If you told users that there was a way to indicate the end of the option
series, that's what they'd expect, because it's how all the other commands
do it.
-s
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