cygutils cygstart eats program arguments

Rolf Campbell thats.unpossible@gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 16:08:00 GMT 2004


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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