I meant non-interactive, for use in scripts which take user input. We already have "--" for end of options, but the support for it is not universal and even wit

I meant non-interactive, for use in scripts which take user input. We already have "--" for end of options, but the support for it is not universal and even with that some programs will interpret certain strings in a special way. On the other hand, prepending the dot-slash should work for any program or argument passing style.