On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:39:40PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 05:42, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
>
> > Try -- as options stopper.
>
> This should be explicitly stated in the man page (it's not very
> obvious).
Ah, but this is standard getopt behavior. It would be nice to
document it, I agree, but this is a classic gotcha that all
command line users will run across at SOME point.
From GNU getopt(3):
"The special argument `--' forces an end of option-scanning
regardless of the scanning mode."
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