Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 11:38:27 -0500 From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fixing documented bug in env(1) Message-ID: <200106011638.f51GcR524864@guild.plethora.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:35:22 PDT." <20010601093521.B4306@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20010601093521.B4306@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:29:38PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: >> Although this is a documented shortcoming, it's quite unnecessary >> given how easy it is to fix it. Any objections to allowing '--' to >> mean "end of env. variable assignments"? >The orthoginal way (with grep, mv, et. al.) would be to use '==', not >'--' as that is the problematic character. Principle of least astonishment says that, sinec everyone else uses "--" to indicate the end of a series of "options", that's what env should do too. If you told users that there was a way to indicate the end of the option series, that's what they'd expect, because it's how all the other commands do it. -s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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