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Re: trivial mkpasswd defect
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: Bernard A Badger <bab at vx dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:14:06 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- Subject: Re: trivial mkpasswd defect
- References: <INEKLKBFCDBPKMKAJLMDEEIOCDAA.bab@vx.com>
- Reply-to: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
On Wed, 29 May 2002 12:27:15 -0400 Bernard A Badger <bab@vx.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> > Of Corinna Vinschen
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:32 AM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Cc: Jon LaBadie
> > Subject: Re: trivial mkpasswd defect
> >
> > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:14:14AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > > mkpasswd reports '?' is a valid help option but fails to accept it.
> > >
> . . .
> > > $ mkpasswd -?
> > > mkpasswd: unknown option -- ?
> >
> > Thanks. This will go away in the next version.
>
> I hope you mean that '-?' will work, not that '-?' will be taken out of the
> usage.
In Unix envronments -h is more commonly used for help. '-?' as an option
is subject to filename expansion which can lead to odd behavior if it isn't
quoted.
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