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From: dce@sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Echo and arguments that begin with "-"
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.150903.5418@sony.com>
Date: 20 Oct 89 15:09:03 GMT
Reply-To: dce@icky.sony.com (David Elliott)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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Here's an interesting problem.  In bash, the echo command can take the
options -n and -e.

We are using bash with the C news inews program (our standard sh is
broken and we aren't ready to upgrade to a new release), and inews
wants to do an

	echo "-- "

Bash's echo sees this and gives an invalid flag message.

In this case, I simply changed the line to

	echo "BB " | tr B -

but it seems reasonable to me that there should be a way to say
"There are no more options; process the rest of the line as it
is".

-- 
David Elliott
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