Re: [PATCH] builtin: Fix 'echo --' handling

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On 18/12/2016 21:16, Mihail Konev wrote:
Ignore first "--", as the end of options.

echo -- is required by POSIX to print --. To quote:

> The echo utility shall not recognize the "--" argument in the manner specified by Guideline 10 of XBD Utility Syntax Guidelines; "--" shall be recognized as a string operand.

Scripts wishing to print the text "-n" without anything else must find some other way, for example using the printf command.

Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
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