From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10314 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2015 01:31:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19817 Received: (qmail 3742 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2015 01:31:53 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=T/C1EZ6Q c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=f7zwPcoQMel2pEJwRS33iw==:117 a=f7zwPcoQMel2pEJwRS33iw==:17 a=Hpgzp-inWqAA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=gD4mAYNnw7RD46bVWnIA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=GYkVBNp-hj8A:10 a=2rX_X9rvD24A:10 a=1G9tklhim5QA:10 Message-id: <54D2C805.9020906@eastlink.ca> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:31:49 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 To: =?windows-1252?Q?Lawrence_Vel=E1zquez?= Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: The "-" and "--" options (was Re: ${var:1:1:=y}) References: <54D155C8.4080600@eastlink.ca> <412544FB-49A2-43AA-BC76-DC1AF1AA71BE@larryv.me> <54D16A4C.9010609@eastlink.ca> <150203192508.ZM2159@torch.brasslantern.com> <54D195B2.4070205@gmx.com> <150204091014.ZM3216@torch.brasslantern.com> <54D25A02.1000605@eastlink.ca> <260A930A-CA77-4BDB-8827-047F742FD3CF@larryv.me> In-reply-to: <260A930A-CA77-4BDB-8827-047F742FD3CF@larryv.me> On 02/04/2015 03:47 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > As others have opined, expecting "consistency" from any echo(1) is a bad > bet, Indeed, and as I said, I'm glad I no longer have any expectations there. > % echo - - Ok, the first hyphen gets eaten, and the next one is literal. Still, shouldn't single quotes make anything inside them literal?