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According to Mike Frysinger on 2/22/2009 10:03 PM:
> previous versions of bash would happily accept negative values ( treated as a 
> signed integer and masked with like 0xff), but it seems some changes related 
> to option parsing has broken that
> 
> $ f(){ return -1; }; f
> -bash: return: -1: invalid option
> return: usage: return [n]

What about 'return -- -1'?

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             e...@byu.net
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