From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) Subject: Re: How do I delete file named "-I" ? Date: 15 Jun 1992 15:18:16 GMT
pgr@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron) writes:
>My suggestion is: go and ask on comp.unix.wizards. I'm sure they'll
>appreciate it. It may take two or three weeks before the e-mail flames
>die down, though, so be prepared to have a mail box full of comments
>telling you:
I have read it on comp.unix wizards before, which is why I thought I
knew the answer -- since the standard answer is the non-solution I
gave.
> parse its arguments, lets you use the -- option to indicate
Aha. The BSD manpage (I was on a BSD machine when I posted) says "the
null option - indicates..." but maybe they mean to specify it as
"--"...
>Manual pages are always a good place to start looking for answers...
Unless they lie to you... :-) (Given, I didn't look at the GNU
manpage, which is correct.)