[getopt-sig] ANNOUNCE: Optik 1.3 released
Matthias Urlichs
smurf@noris.de
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:55:26 +0200
Hi,
A.T. Hofkamp:
> 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).
>
That's not a problem with "rm"; that's a bug of the command-line interface
in general. Not fixable, IMHO.
All programs which use the normal command-line parsers understand "--"
as the standard workaround for this bug. That's not an rm-specific feature
either; it even works with shell scripts. ;-)
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