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Vijay updated CASSANDRA-4808: ----------------------------- Attachment: 0001-CASSANDRA-4808.patch There are 2 option, Make nt to accept '-' by making "Options" ignore any -xxxx values (dont verify if they are valid options), this can cause confusion on other commands. Other option (Attached patch) is to support escape character for '-' Example: ./apache-cassandra-1.2.0-beta1-SNAPSHOT/bin/nodetool move \\-2253536297082652571 > nodetool doesnt work well with -ve tokens > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-4808 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4808 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core > Reporter: Vijay > Assignee: Vijay > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.2.0 beta 1 > > Attachments: 0001-CASSANDRA-4808.patch > > > ./apache-cassandra-1.2.0-beta1-SNAPSHOT/bin/nodetool move > \-2253536297082652573 > Unrecognized option: -2253536297082652573 > usage: java org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd --host <arg> <command> > > -cf,--column-family <arg> only take a snapshot of the specified column > family -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira