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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!usenet From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 13 Oct 1996 19:19:44 GMT Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <53rfcg$a7@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <53oncv$fi5@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <53oncv$fi5@newshost.lanl.gov>, crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) writes: > > told command that funny.file.name is an argument and not an option > flag even if it began with a "-" but that doesn't seem to be the > case with FreeBSD. I belive you're looking for "--" rather than "-". > PC% cat /dev/null > --remove-files > PC% rm - --remove-files > rm: -: No such file or directory > PC% ls > ./ ../ This looks like a problem with getopt(): /* * if the user didn't specify '-' as an option, * assume it means EOF. */ if (optopt == (int)'-') return (EOF); if (!*place) ++optind; I suspect this should be: if (!*place) ++optind; if (optopt == (int)'-') return (EOF); In FreeBSD (and BSD in generial I believe), '-' *may* be treated as a valid flag if the program wishes. If the program doesn't specifically mention it, it behaves like "--". -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....