At 2004-06-01T194422+1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Now we come to '[--]'. This double dash means: "Tell bash to stop
> collecting options from the command line for the program mentioned at
> the start of the line, and send the rest of the line to any program
> which might be spawed by fsck".
It's got nothing to do with bash, or, for that matter, any other shell
the user might be running.
The effect of the '--' options is a result of specific program support,
provided either by an option parsing library call such as getopt(3), or
coded explicitly by the programmer.
It might seem pedantic to point this out, but it's important to realise
that this feature is program-specific, not related to the user's shell
at all, and not supported by every program.
Cheers,
-mjg
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