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

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 07 2017, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

>> 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
`./-'.


Andreas.

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