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Re: Adding support for `cat a.out | size -`

On Nov 08 2017, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
>>>> In any case, this would still be a breaking change, because size - reads a - file at the moment. Should I add a command line flag?
>>>
>>> Yes.  Presumably "--" would be the appropriate flag.
>> 
>> No, that would be wrong.  '-' is not a option, so '--' does not suppress
>> its meaning.  Likewise, `cat -- -' always reads stdin, not the file
>> `./-'.
>
> I see what you mean.  OK, how about a --file option whose argument is always interpreted
> as a file name, even if it is "-" ?

You can always use `./-'.

Andreas.

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