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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Always use "--" (Was: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and
 Unix/Linux)
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 21:35:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 13:17:48 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:

> The "--" option is just that, an option coded into the argument parser
> of the program being invoked. Many programs /do not/ recognize "--" as
> an "end of flags" argument, so the effectiveness of "--" is unreliable.

All the good ones do. This is why getopt(3) with POSIXLY_CORRECT stops 
looking for options as soon as a nonoption argument is encountered.

Remember also that arguments need not necessarily be file names, so 
prefixing them all with “./” willy-nilly may not produce the right result 
anyway.