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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <10219@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 9 Apr 88 13:35:28 GMT
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In article <8041@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP writes:

>The first time around I get the right result--a usage message.  The second
>time, though, the contents of "-x" is dumped in wide format.

That's because the shell is expanding -? to "-w -x". If there is no
match, the shell leaves the -? alone.
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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