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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by zxzax on Friday June 04, 2021 @10:34AM (#27394010)
Don't forget filenames that start with a dash... Usually you need to remember to put "--" in every single command invocation.
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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by usr1106 on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:14AM (#27394402)
That has to do absolute nothing with the shell, that's a Unix convention how commands parse their arguments.
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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by _d7dt on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:27PM (#27397141)
I disagree, the shell is in the best situation to do something about it. Or at least it would be, if there was a consistent way for programs to report to the shell how their argument parsing works.
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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by enriquto on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:58AM (#27405083)
that would be horrific
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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by zxzax on Saturday June 05, 2021 @12:54PM (#27406623)
More horrific than having to guess what switches are supported by any given command on the target machine, even though shell scripts are supposed to be cross platform?
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