Dan Muresan wrote: > After reading the other part of the spec (about syntax errors in > utilities), I reached the conclusion that dash has just enough excuses > in the spec and in history to behave as it currently does I have no strong opinion about this (and indeed the spec and history not giving a clear answer reduces my motivation) but if you'd like to change the spec, it's very easy. See http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html