One of my first introductions to the fact that GNU getopt is much different from BSD/UNIX getopt was running `rm * -i` on Solaris. Instead of prompting me for

One of my first introductions to the fact that GNU getopt is much different from BSD/UNIX getopt was running `rm * -i` on Solaris. Instead of prompting me for which files to delete, it removed all of my files and then printed an error about failing to remove the non existent file "-i".