From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: PATCH Re: 5.3: printf -
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:48:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4b5fa2b-2f72-da30-5ec1-6b91e20380e9@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161215224512.GA30237@fujitsu.shahaf.local2>
On 12/15/16 5:45 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> This surprises me; it doesn't match my understanding of the spec.
> (I thought POSIX would take "--" to be the format string.)
"Standard utilities that do not accept options, but that do accept
operands, shall recognize "--" as a first argument to be discarded."
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap01.html#tag_17_04
Chet
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-15 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 23:41 Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-13 4:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-13 6:25 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-14 4:48 ` PATCH " Bart Schaefer
2016-12-14 9:39 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-12-14 16:51 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-14 18:44 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-12-15 0:50 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-15 1:14 ` Chet Ramey
2016-12-15 22:45 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-12-15 23:48 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2016-12-16 0:56 ` Daniel Shahaf
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