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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <2576@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 01:48:27 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <143@gsg.UUCP> <7663@brl-smoke.ARPA>
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In article <7663@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
# In article <2569@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
# >All youse guys are missing the REALLY illegal, non-wildcard getopt option.
# >It is ":".
# 
# Actually I didn't miss it.  The same yoyo implementor who is likely to
# make = a valid option is also likely to pass getopts a list like ":abc:d:ef".

$ getopt :abc:d:ef -: foo
getopt: illegal option -- :

':' is special-cased in getopt.c.  Look at the code.
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