The reasons given there aren’t really any good: 1. For “--” to work, all maintainers would have to faithfully use “--” in practically every command invo

The reasons given there aren’t really any good: 1. For “--” to work, all maintainers would have to faithfully use “--” in practically every command invocation. That just doesn’t happen in real life, even after decades of people trying. People forget it all the time; no one is that consistent, especially since code seems to work without it. Very few commands require it, after all. So because other people may or may not forget it, I shouldn’t use it in my scripts/day-to-day usage? That’s about as silly as saying that, because other people will write unreadable code anyway I shouldn’t bother with comments, short functions or sensible variable names. 2. You can’t do it anyway, even if you were perfectly consistent; many programs and commands do not support “--”. POSIX even explicitly for- bids echo from supporting “--”, and echo must support “-n” (and GNU coreutils echo supports other options too). This is a problem, but iff you have to use echo for some reason. printf works nearly equally well and supports -- just fine. I may have read somewhere that using printf is actually advocated nowadays, but I’m not sure where and why.