On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM Christian Schulte <c...@schulte.it> wrote: ... > No idea how many shells there are around doing things the way the do. > Running "grep printf configure" on the configure script generated by the > GNU toolchain shows a lot of "printf" without --.
Hmm, if you wanted to see what was in the root directory, would you run ls -l -- / or just ls -l / ? The -- option terminator is only necessary if the first positional argument (the format string for printf) does or could start with a hyphen. If it cannot, then the behavior is portable even without the --. Philip Guenther
