From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <169b5653f486eddddba297a12fb8db9f@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to delete directories prefixed with a dash
From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:56:24 -0700
In-Reply-To: <40D0CB94.3080408@ameritech.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Topicbox-Message-UUID: a46d5de2-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

Real getopt has nothing to do with gnu.  gnu has several flavours of
extended getopt-like functions, but that's not relevant here.  I was
just pointing out that arg(2) implements the same "--" convention as
getopt, so all programs that use arg(2) for option parsing get it for
free.  And yes, I rarely use it, preferring "rm ./-p" and "grep '*-p'"
or "grep .-p".