From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15316 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2002 10:19:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15255 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 10:19:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com) (193.131.176.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 10:19:51 -0000 Received: by fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com; id KAA26018; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:19:50 GMT Received: from unknown(172.16.1.2) by fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com via smap (V5.5) id xma025352; Fri, 11 Jan 02 10:18:50 GMT Received: from cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13425; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:18:50 GMT Received: from sun18.cambridge.arm.com (sun18.cambridge.arm.com [172.16.2.18]) by cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA25904; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:18:49 GMT Message-Id: <200201111018.KAA25904@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Elena Zannoni cc: Andrew Cagney , Michael Snyder , Elena Zannoni , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com Reply-To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com Organization: ARM Ltd. X-Telephone: +44 1223 400569 (direct+voicemail), +44 1223 400400 (switchbd) X-Fax: +44 1223 400410 X-Address: ARM Ltd., 110 Fulbourn Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge CB1 9NJ. X-Url: http://www.arm.com/ Subject: Re: [RFA] Add new cmd line parameter "--pid" for attach. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:59:21 EST." <15422.10969.48366.155165@localhost.cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:19:00 -0000 From: Richard Earnshaw X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00280.txt.bz2 > Andrew Cagney writes: > > > "To remove a file called `-f' in the current directory, you could type > > > either rm -- -f or rm ./-f " > > > > > > ``--''? Since when was ``--'' an option to rm? You'll be telling me > > UNIX comes with colour LS next .... :-^ > > > > yes, true, it is in the man page for rm on RH7.1! > > > Yes. The use of ./1234 should be documented. So should (in the NEWS > > file) the quiet switch of how vs is decided. > > > > Michael added this to the doco, yes. > > Elena > > > > Andrew Solaris uses a single '-' to mark the end of the options list: NOTES A - permits the user to mark explicitly the end of any com- mand line options, allowing rm to recognize file arguments that begin with a -. As an aid to BSD migration, rm will accept - as a synonym for -. This migration aid may disap- pear in a future release. If a - and a - both appear on the same command line, the second will be interpreted as a file.