On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 08:49 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote: > Hi Albert, > > > Sorry for the late reply, if i understand correctly these patches make it > > impossible to work on a file called "-", right? > > That's correct. > > > Wouldn't it be better to add a -stdin switch or something similar? > > I personally don't really care. I followed what the other programs did > with stdin (see, for example, pdftotext.cc:199). I'm happy to change > these. I was just striving for consistency with the other utils. >
After some quick testing, it looks like almost nothing will operate on a file named "-". If the file is named , say, "-a", you can generally do "command -- -a", but "command -- -" still generally operates on stdin. I'd say go with the flow, and make users rename files named "-", personally, rather than breaking standards with the majority of GNU CLI apps. Daniel
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