On 8/19/17 9:52 PM, PePa wrote: > In that case, would not [[ =fx $file ]] be more workable and in line with > common GNU short commandline option practice??
Something. And not a character that's already a shell metacharacter, either, which cuts down the available choices. `=', `+', or maybe (though it's a distant third) `--'. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/