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This depends on the application recognizing the -- convention and also depends on having all the little scripts in your system remembering to use the --.
by ufo 10y ago
This depends on the application recognizing the -- convention and also depends on having all the little scripts in your system remembering to use the --.
- kazinator 10y agoEven if the OS kernel provided a process launching API with separated options and arguments, that would not remove the need for the -- syntax to remove the ambiguity at the shell level, and hence your need to use that in scripts. It would remove the problem of programs all being required to implement --.