On 5/23/07, David Taft <oradbt054@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The part I'm not completely sure about is the double-dash (--). The AIX
> man page for ksh is very sparse. I went to
publib.boulder.ibm.com/.../korn_shell_enhanced.htm
> under "Coproces facility", but didn't find any help there. I did find
> some info under the getopts command that makes me think the double-dash is
> just a kind of terminator that says "don't check for any more options after
> -p. Is that correct?
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The -- is not specific to co-processes, but is used to tell the shell to
stop looking for options on the command line, and consider everything
following the -- as an argument.
eg. Create a file named '-i'
Now try to delete it with 'rm -i'.
This obviously won't work, but 'rm -- -i' will work.
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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
