-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to jesse wilson on 5/28/2009 6:16 PM: > deleting it. Since "--" is a > common option of the coreutils,
More than that, it is a common option required by POSIX of almost all apps (although not all apps follow POSIX, and there are a few exceptions for things like echo). > is to have a coreutils manpage that > describes the > common options of the coreutils programs and is referenced by the > manpages of the > individual coreutils programs. But it is not just coreutils that follows these rules, so why should coreutils be the one to provide such a page? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkofRiEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBAgACgqtOOpiFv2mf12XRRD8fMUQrV 6LoAniLB+RXjEIwFCoMcy9Vi/WbGlrIO =5XKg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
