Perfect! Thanks much, Eric. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 6:21 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Gordon Grimes <gordon_gri...@symantec.com> Subject: Re: regtool 2.11.1 need a way to specify leading "-" in values
On 1/22/19 5:12 PM, Gordon Grimes wrote: > I believe there is no way to specify values with leading "-" in regtool. I > expect the same applies to keys. An "end of switch processing" switch would > be useful, forcing 'regtool' to interpret all remaining arguments literally. Fortunately, you are mistaken. regtool uses getopt_long(), and therefore, like all other programs that use this, automatically inherits the POSIX rule that '--' is the marker for "end of switch processing". > > Example: > % regtool -s set '\HKCU\Environment\MAVEN_OPTS' "-Xms512m -Xmx3072m > -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" > regtool: unknown option -- X > Try `regtool --help' for more information. Try: regtool -s set '\HKCU\Environment\MAVEN_OPS' -- "-Xms512m -Xmx3072m -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote" -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
