Carl Lowenstein wrote: > Since when has one been able to put a "-" option after the file name > in a command line? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ mkdir a > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ touch a/b > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ rm a > rm: cannot remove `a': Is a directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ rm a -rf > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ls a > ls: a: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ rm --version > rm (coreutils) 5.2.1 > > Observed in somebody else's shell script. Rubs me very much the wrong way.
It does read funny, but I've always thought it was the _standard_ getopt(1,3,P) behavior - at least, since the invention of '--'. For programs that don't use getopt, I suppose you can never know what it will accept. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
