On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 04:40:16PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: | echo.c says | | /* This utility may NOT do getopt(3) option parsing. */ | | Why is that, for echo(1) specifically? | Other binaries in /bin seem to use getopt(3) freely.
Because echo should echo all arguments, including those that would otherwise be parsed by getopt(3), except for '-n'. Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/