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To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net>
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Subject: Re: getopt and files that start with - or -- 
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.980616184616.202A-100000@myname.my.domain>, Donn Mill
er writes:
>Hi
>
>I had some problems with filenames that start with - or --.  The getopt()
>library function interprets arguments beginning with "-" passed to
>programs like ls, rm, grep as options.  This is bad if you try to do 
>rm -* or
>ls -* or grep "a string" -*.  I thought maybe a provision could be made to
>"ignore the following arguments" passed to getopt().

It's already there.

>Say you have a file named --weird.jpg.  You want to remove this, so you
>do:

No, you do 'rm -- --weird.jpg'.

Read the getopt(1) man page more carefully:

     may not be separated from it by white space.  The special option ``--''
     is used to delimit the end of the options.  getopt will place ``--'' in
     the arguments at the end of the options, or recognize it if used explic-
     itly.


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