On 7/5/19 11:16 PM, Geyslan G. Bem wrote: >>From 99ed9353c43fc8682f99a70d8a0b97d75f78f3f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: "Geyslan G. Bem" <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 01:04:40 -0300 > Subject: [PATCH] cat: open any file name after "--" > > * src/cat.c (main): Treat "-" after "--" as file, not as stdin.
Sorry, but this patch violates POSIX. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm "If a file is '-', the cat utility shall read from the standard input at that point in the sequence." Note that [file...] per the SYNOPSIS is NOT an option, but an argument. The '--' argument is an end-of-option marker, required only when you want the next command line word (or all subsequent command line words when you are not using POSIXLY_CORRECT to suppress GNU getopt argument permutation) to be recognized as an argument rather than an option. But since there is no such thing as an empty-string option, '-' is not recognized as an option in the first place, regardless of whether or not '--' was present. If you wish to cat a file named '-' in the current directory, spell it './-' or use an absolute path to that file. That's true of all command line utilities that treat '-' as stdin (not just cat). -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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