patch to add getopt parsing to expr

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Jan 20 07:54:43 PST 2009


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:18:37AM -0500, Joe Talbott wrote:
> Since POSIX requires arguments beginning with '-' to be options
> shouldn't the following result in an error?

No. POSIX only says that -- has to be supported to disable the use of
options. It doesn't say that options have to be used.

Joerg





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