Re: set -I is not required by standard, and does not match bash

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On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In dash, set -I is a short-option alias to set -o ignoreeof.
> 
> However, bash does not have such alias, it has an undocumented
> set -I which switches off "invisible variables"
> (I don't know what that is).
> 
> Standards do not mention any -I option.
> 
> I propose, in the interests of keeping things less disparate,
> to remove set -I support from dash: make "ignoreeof" to be
> only an -o long option.

This option goes all the way back to BSD.  Unless they have all
removed this option I'm not going to change it.

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