"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> I guess we must still support -E for compatibility. Probably it should >> do an implicit ‘sh -c’? > > This introduces implementation issues. What if a user provides both a > -E command *and* a command after '--'? What's the sane thing to do? > > I also don't feel strongly that we need to keep flags around for > compatibility this early in the game, given that we are alpha software > and such. > > Thoughts?
I thought it would be nice to keep also for convenience... -E 'foo' is somewhat nicer than -- sh -c 'foo'. Taylan
