Re: [dev] sbase

On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:27:16 -0400
Kurt H Maier <karmaflux_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius
> <svartman95_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/23/11, Rob <robpilling_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> One more thing, we're not bothering with the -- flag, are we?
> > We should, if only for the sake of portable scripts. We may not need
> > or want full POSIX, but we should at least support general conventions
> > used by properly written scripts.
>
> POSIX flags never start with --.
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html

The point of the “--” ‘flag’ is to tell the program to not interpret
following arguments as options.

Robert Ransom