Subject: Re: which echo.c would you choose?
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 11/29/1999 23:33:55 
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:30:59 +1100 
 matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:

 >    
 >    I'd rather see "use something very similar to getopt", because that's more
 >    canonical, although I don't know what echo is *supposed* to do with "--".
 >    :)
 > 
 > 
 > echo -- -n

lestat:thorpej 1808$ /bin/echo -- -n
-- -n
lestat:thorpej 1809$  

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>