Felix Dietrich <[email protected]> wrote: > --- > When I read the getopts description in the man-page I got stumped by the > following part: > > getopts optstring var > > [..] > > If there are no remaining arguments, getopts will set var to > special option, “--”, otherwise, it will set var to “?” > > [..] > > After I was unable to get getopts to store "--" in var, I asked for help > on comp.unix.shell [1] where it was pointed out to me that actually the > POSIX description of getopts [2] does not include a special option "--"; > dash's behaviour of setting var to "?" after the last argument is > correct and that this is most likely an error in the documention.
Patch applied. Thanks! -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
