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> > > > You can't have tried very hard then: 'touch -- "-rf *"'. > > > <snipped> > > > > Cheers, > > Tom > > > > You are (also) correct. > Turns out there's a number of ways to do that. > > 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. ,----------- -- Liam
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