DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-19 20:37:55 +0200]: > The 'printf' command (no matter the POSIXLY_CORRECT var), chokes > on the following: > > > printf -- "Hi there\n" > --printf: warning: excess arguments have been ignored > > The correct behaviour, according to Single UNIX Specification > version 3 (don't know the POSIX behaviour), is that 'printf' shall > recognize '--' as a first argument to be discarded. That is, if I > want to print '--help', I shouldn't need to set POSIXLY_CORRECT, but > just do 'printf -- --help'.
Thanks for the report. I logged this as a bug against GNU coreutils and it is now in the database. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-sh-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
