Michael G Schwern writes: > There's nothing about '--' which indicates "pass the rest through to > the tests".
It did to me, honestly! As soon as I opened David's e-mail at the start of this thread the "--" jumped out of the paragraph of text, and I guessed what his words would say before I read them. > In fact, it normally means "stop processing the following as switches > and instead treat them as files". Or possibly, it means "stop processing the following as switches". Which is what it does mean in this case. Smylers