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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: The "-" and "--" options (was Re: ${var:1:1:=y})
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:02:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150204190248.3571f2e2@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150204091014.ZM3216@torch.brasslantern.com>

On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:10:14 -0800
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> Also "echo" does NOT accept "--" in this way, it ONLY acceps a solitary
> "-".  I forget why that is.

I think the decision for echo (some years ago) was that it would be
better to make it consistent with versions of /bin/echo rather than with
the normal internal interface, since shell scripts were written to the
external echo interface even if the shell had the builtin.

It seems this argument still works on Linux at least:

% /bin/echo -- foo
-- foo

so I think we were (probably) right and this is the best consistency
we're going to get.

However, there were already incompatible BSD / SYSV echoes even then, so
it was never a full consistency with all possible external command
variants of echo.

pws


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-04 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-03 23:12 ${var:1:1:=y} Ray Andrews
2015-02-04  0:18 ` ${var:1:1:=y} Lawrence Velázquez
2015-02-04  0:39   ` ${var:1:1:=y} Ray Andrews
2015-02-04  1:30     ` ${var:1:1:=y} Lawrence Velázquez
2015-02-04  3:25       ` ${var:1:1:=y} Bart Schaefer
2015-02-04  3:44         ` ${var:1:1:=y} Eric Cook
2015-02-04 17:10           ` The "-" and "--" options (was Re: ${var:1:1:=y}) Bart Schaefer
2015-02-04 17:42             ` Ray Andrews
2015-02-04 23:47               ` Lawrence Velázquez
2015-02-05  1:31                 ` Ray Andrews
2015-02-05  1:52                   ` Kurtis Rader
2015-02-05  2:03                     ` Ray Andrews
2015-02-05  2:24               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-02-04 19:02             ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2015-02-04 19:53               ` ZyX
2015-02-04  5:16         ` ${var:1:1:=y} Ray Andrews

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