On 27/06/11 00:55, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/26/11 at 09:45pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 26/06/11 19:25, Tom Furie wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote: >> >> <snipped> >> What does the "--" do?? > > POSIX standard is for -- to signify end of options, so anything beyond that > cannot be processed as a switch/option. > > ,----------- > | Guideline 10: > | The first -- argument that is not an option-argument should be accepted as > | a delimiter indicating the end of options. Any following arguments should be > | treated as operands, even if they begin with the '-' character. > ,----------- >
Thanks -- should prove very useful (much simpler safety than other proposals). Also explains why it didn't throw an error. I remember seeing it before (IRIX and AIX) but, um, don't think I'd ever bothered to asking why :-(. Cheers -- You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know. During the Persian Gulf war, those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons." "How do you know that?" "Uh, well … we looked at the receipts. But as soon as that check clears, we're goin' in. What time's the bank open? Eight? We're going in at nine. ~ Bill Hicks on the Gulf War -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e074c8e.5000...@gmail.com