Fun with *
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sun Nov 20 12:50:24 AEST 1988
In article <17247 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba at garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>And while you're at it, don't forget the problem of the lexicograph-
>ically first file being named "-f".
In a general-purpose shell script, one would want to use the -- option
list terminator to avoid this problem. (Some systems still don't fully
support the UNIX command language syntax standard, though.)
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