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The plan9 one is short and sweet, but what I don't like is that it doesn't support the dashdash thing that unambiguously marks that rest of the arguments should
by im3w1l 7y ago
The plan9 one is short and sweet, but what I don't like is that it doesn't support the dashdash thing that unambiguously marks that rest of the arguments should be interpreted as files and not flags. Needed for reliable defensive shell scripts imo.
You may say "it has no options anyway" but other cats do. And you may want to add options in a future version.
- Someone 7y agoI thought that’s a GNU-ism that wasn’t in POSIX, but https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html#tag_12_02 https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1... taught me differently. Now I think it made it into POSIX only fairly recently (corrections welcome) (it is a good idea, though)