On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:55:32PM +1000, Andrew Monkhouse wrote:
> The readline() call stops interpreting command line options after it
> sees a "--" on it's own. So you can do:
>
> mv -- ---.dat foo.dat
>
> Then the "---.dat" will be interpreted as a filename, not as an option.
>
> (Now if only I could remember where that was documented, I could point
> you to the documentation).
getopt(3)
The special argument `--' forces an end of option-scanning
regardless of the scanning mode.
Cheers,
John
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