Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> writes:

> On 27/06/11 00:55, William Hopkins wrote:
>> On 06/26/11 at 09:45pm, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>> On 26/06/11 19:25, Tom Furie wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>>>> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote:
>>>
>>> <snipped>
>>> What does the "--" do??
>>
>> POSIX standard is for -- to signify end of options, so anything beyond that
>> cannot be processed as a switch/option.
>>
>> ,-----------
>> | Guideline 10:
>> | The first -- argument that is not an option-argument should be accepted as
>> | a delimiter indicating the end of options. Any following arguments should be
>> | treated as operands, even if they begin with the '-' character.
>> ,-----------
>>
>
> Thanks -- should prove very useful (much simpler safety than other
> proposals). Also explains why it didn't throw an error.

There's a difference between "touch -- file*" and "touch "file*"", isn't
there? The guideline also says "should", not "must".


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lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> There's a difference between "touch -- file*" and "touch "file*"", isn't
> there?

Yes there is, and you can see the difference when you have one or more
files, in the current directory, whose names start with "file". (Hint:
precede or replace 'touch' with 'echo'.)

Chris


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