command line options

[Every system needs one]

In article <2576 at ttrdc.UUCP>, levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
| 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.


Why not make a shell built-in "help" which passes a flag to the program that
you can't get elsewhere without beating it over the head with a noodle?  Say
\377?

				terry at wsccs