Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

[Rolf Campbell <thats dot unpossible at gmail dot com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Schmidt
> > Sent: 25 October 2004 22:56
>
>
> > Mark Paulus wrote:
> >
> > > Have you tried using a -- to indicate end of arguments
> > > to cygstart:
> > >
> > > cygstart -- tail --version
> >
> > Thanks!  No, I hadn't, and that works great.
> >
> > I still find the usage syntax to be misleading though:
> > Usage: cygstart [OPTION]... FILE [ARGUMENTS]
> >
> > What are ARGUMENTS if not to be passed to the execution of 
> > FILE?  (For 
> > people relatively new to the nuances of cygwin/Linux (like 
> > myself), '--' 
> > is a pretty obscure feature.)
>
>
>   Consider the question of how one would grep for the string "--version" in a
> file.....
>
>     cheers, 
>       DaveK
grep -e --version


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