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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 
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Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 17:03:20 +0100
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > I think green was implying that sed would have its own getopt instead
> > of changing the system getopt.
> 
> Ugh.  Nasty.  Especially if the modified getopt() could be useful to
> other programs as well (do we have any programs with options that take
> optional arguments?)

At the risk of detracting from the matter at hand, this would be a
useful extension to getopt(3), as would the ability to have numeric-only
options (a' la "tail -123"), that is not just single digits, but whole
numbers.

I'm not going to write it, I'm not going argue about it, and I'm not
going to say any more about it, so if this is utterly ridiculous, then
ignore me and this branch of the thread will die :-).

M
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