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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