On 2012-01-29 22:29, Keshav Kini wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:27, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm. Indeed, `sage -sh -c gap -b` still displays a banner, for
>> example, whereas `sage -gap -b` does not. `sage -sh -c gap -- -b`
>> doesn't work either. `sage -sh -c 'gap -b'` does, though, so that's a
>> workaround. The question then becomes, would we want `sage -C` to be
>> consistent with `sh -c`, or would we want it to be consistent with how
>> `sage -gap` et al. work currently? I would be fine with the latter
>> (say, wrapping $@ into a single argument to the -c of the subshell).
> 
> Er, I should mention that this -C option should be handled by the thin
> bash script, of course - it doesn't make sense to start Python and
> load argparse just to open a subshell! :)
And -C is one of the useful options even when Sage has not been built
completely, so we should not rely on Python for this -C option.

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