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Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 06:41:40 -0700
From: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] -- in rsc's g script
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On Sat, 15 May 2010 15:16:35 +0200
Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com> wrote:

> could anybody tell me what's the meaning of '--' in
>
> grep -n $flags -- $1 *.[Cbchm] /dev/null

'--' tells the Plan 9 program argument parser to stop looking for
options.  See arg(2).

GNU getopt has the same feature.

Robert Ransom