command line options

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <7663 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
# In article <2569 at ttrdc.UUCP> levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
# >All youse guys are missing the REALLY illegal, non-wildcard getopt option.
# >It is ":".
# 
# Actually I didn't miss it.  The same yoyo implementor who is likely to
# make = a valid option is also likely to pass getopts a list like ":abc:d:ef".

$ getopt :abc:d:ef -: foo
getopt: illegal option -- :

':' is special-cased in getopt.c.  Look at the code.
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