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From: | Mathias Koerber |
Subject: | Re: parted --script /dev/sda mkpartfs primary 228 -0 (problem) |
Date: | Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:59:26 +0800 |
is using "--" to indicate no more options a shell thing or a parted thing?It's a shell thing.I poked around the LDP bash howto's and could not find reference to "--"You might want to suggest to the author that he add it ;)
Actually, it´s a getopt(3) [or equivalent function] thing. bash(1) as shell uses it too for its own invocation etc, but in this case bash(1) doesn´t do anything special. It just hands all options and arguments to parted in in argv, and parted calls either getopt_long(3) or getopt(3) which will look out for that special token to stop processing options. As such, though it is so common that most programs do not separately document it, it might be useful to document this feature in the parted(8) manpage as it does affect options like -0. Mathias
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