Peng Yu <pengyu....@gmail.com> writes: > The following shows that echo does not following the "getopt" > convection.
POSIX requires that: The echo utility shall not recognize the "--" argument in the manner specified by Guideline 10 of XBD Utility Syntax Guidelines; "--" shall be recognized as a string operand. It also says: New applications are encouraged to use printf instead of echo. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."