On 7/26/23 8:42 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
If POSIX mandates that '--' not be taken as the end of options, then the
safe thing would be to simply not have echo take any options. Obviously,
that would break backwards compatibility, so you'd want this to be optional
behavior that the shell programmer can enable if desired.
set -o posix
shopt -s xpg_echo
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