On 1/22/19 5:12 PM, Gordon Grimes wrote: > I believe there is no way to specify values with leading "-" in regtool. I > expect the same applies to keys. An "end of switch processing" switch would > be useful, forcing 'regtool' to interpret all remaining arguments literally.
Fortunately, you are mistaken. regtool uses getopt_long(), and therefore, like all other programs that use this, automatically inherits the POSIX rule that '--' is the marker for "end of switch processing". > > Example: > % regtool -s set '\HKCU\Environment\MAVEN_OPTS' "-Xms512m -Xmx3072m > -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" > regtool: unknown option -- X > Try `regtool --help' for more information. Try: regtool -s set '\HKCU\Environment\MAVEN_OPS' -- "-Xms512m -Xmx3072m -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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