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Re: Making copies of files


From: michael-franzese
Subject: Re: Making copies of files
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:35:18 +0200


> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2021 at 6:32 AM
> From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <vq@larryv.me>
> To: michael-franzese@gmx.com
> Cc: "help-bash" <help-bash@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Making copies of files
>
> > On Mar 31, 2021, at 2:24 PM, michael-franzese@gmx.com wrote:
> > 
> > Am trying to figure out what the option "--" does with cp.
> 
> Same thing it does almost everywhere else.

Means that I can run the script to execute what I need.

Many thanks
 
>       Guideline 10:
>           The first -- argument that is not an option-argument should
>           be accepted as a delimiter indicating the end of options.
>           Any following arguments should be treated as operands, even
>           if they begin with the '-' character.
> 
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html#tag_12_02
> 
> vq



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