Re: Poll: syntax of long options

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From: Per Abrahamsen
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 17:33

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>>>>> On 29 Oct 91 14:22:56 GMT, l-rittle@uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) said:

Loren> Valid file names can start with a '-' also.  What's your point?

If you write a shell script for a POSIX system, you can expect

	ls -l +something

to write the long listing for the file called `+something'.  However,
on a GNU system the command would print a usage message.  Thus, GNU ls
is not POSIX compliant.

On a GNU system you would have to write something like 

	ls -l -- +something

to get the same effect.

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