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Good idea but strange syntax. It would be more idiomatic if the command came first and the list of globs last. Additionally the use of "--" is not what everybo

Good idea but strange syntax. It would be more idiomatic if the command came first and the list of globs last. Additionally the use of "--" is not what everybody expects: here it is used to introduce one argument, the command, while it's usually meant to introduce multiple arguments without worrying if they have a leading "-". A possible revised syntax with command as the first argument followed by a list of globs optionally introduced by "--" would allow to enumerate all files with a leading "-", which the current syntax cannot: enumerate 'whatever {}' -- '-*' I'm assuming "-f" for simplicity, but the same reasoning holds for "-L" too.

montag 3mo ago
I thought -- was typically a separator for passing a list of arguments directly to some subcommand
- altairprime 3mo ago
  The historical meaning is, "do not interpret command line arguments following --"; e.g. the classical form shown by `echo > -f; rm -- -f`. Git has a more complex interpretation of it and no doubt there's others, but this root interpretation remains generally sound: It acts as a boundary between 'complex and intelligent processing of @ARGV elements' and 'every remaining element of @ARGV after -- is treated a string literal without further processing'.