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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:24:43 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash
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getflags brings rc scripts in line with the argument parsing rules
from the standard plan 9 c maros ARGBEGIN{}ARGEND.

- erik

> 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