Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 14:09:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: Anyone mind if I remove the following braindamage from test(1)? Message-ID: <199609022109.OAA03052@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <2920.841647977@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 2, 96 00:06:17 am
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> I'd expect that to hold true only if the argument was not a flag > argument which required a parameter, then I'd expect it to puke. This > would also help to quickly find instances where you'd undefined a > necessary variable in the source tree, instead of giving a cryptic > error message like: ``usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRr] file ...'' I agree; a flag isn't an argument, it's a flag. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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