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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (Every system needs one)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <496@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 03:26:54 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <143@gsg.UUCP> <2576@ttrdc.UUCP>
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Summary: This getopt() bs is dorky, guys

In article <2576@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
| 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.


Why not make a shell built-in "help" which passes a flag to the program that
you can't get elsewhere without beating it over the head with a noodle?  Say
\377?

				terry@wsccs