Echo and arguments that begin with "-"

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1 total messages Started by David Elliott Fri, 20 Oct 1989 15:09

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Author: David Elliott
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1989 15:09

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Here's an interesting problem.  In bash, the echo command can take the
options -n and -e.

We are using bash with the C news inews program (our standard sh is
broken and we aren't ready to upgrade to a new release), and inews
wants to do an

	echo "-- "

Bash's echo sees this and gives an invalid flag message.

In this case, I simply changed the line to

	echo "BB " | tr B -

but it seems reasonable to me that there should be a way to say
"There are no more options; process the rest of the line as it
is".

-- 
David Elliott
dce@sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce

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