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Re: cygutils cygstart eats program arguments


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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