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I call that a disadvantage, to me it looks like y is an argument to -x

If that's what getflags does, then I hope someone runs rm on it


"This is not LINUX! This is Plan 9. There are rules."


> The only advantage to getflags is that we can say
>
>     rcsrcipt -xy
>
> instead of
>
>     rcscript -x -y
>
> which is why I use it in my 12 script.