Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:41:47 -0600 From: "Michael K. Sanders" <msanders@aros.net> To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getopt and files that start with - or -- Message-ID: <199806162341.RAA21053@shell.aros.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:10:06 -0000." <Pine.NEB.3.96.980616184616.202A-100000@myname.my.domain>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.980616184616.202A-100000@myname.my.domain>, Donn Mill
er writes:
>Hi
>
>I had some problems with filenames that start with - or --. The getopt()
>library function interprets arguments beginning with "-" passed to
>programs like ls, rm, grep as options. This is bad if you try to do
>rm -* or
>ls -* or grep "a string" -*. I thought maybe a provision could be made to
>"ignore the following arguments" passed to getopt().
It's already there.
>Say you have a file named --weird.jpg. You want to remove this, so you
>do:
No, you do 'rm -- --weird.jpg'.
Read the getopt(1) man page more carefully:
may not be separated from it by white space. The special option ``--''
is used to delimit the end of the options. getopt will place ``--'' in
the arguments at the end of the options, or recognize it if used explic-
itly.
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