[getopt-sig] ANNOUNCE: Optik 1.3 released

[A.T. Hofkamp]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Greg Ward wrote:

> > are "greedy" (they try to take an argument first), or "non-greedy" (try to
> > match options first).  But what if you then want to pass an option argument
> > which begins with a hyphen, like a file named "-dash.txt"?  Doesn't work.

A known problem with rm, i.e. 'rm -myfile' will not be accepted by the standard
rm (maybe 'rm -- -myfile' would work on GNU-rm).

Standard trick around it is 'rm ./-myfile'.

The core of the problem is of course that a user cannot get around the
hard-coded meaning of '-', but I wouldn't know how to get around that (unless
we introduce a work-around with a new environment variable 'OPTIONCHAR').

I don't think we want to change that, these limitations are more or less
intrinsic in Unix. In the same way as / is hard-coded as directory seperator.



Albert
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