[Discuss] How to keep '-' in bash args [Thanks]

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-05-03 08:57-0700 noel at natnix.com wrote:

> No problem, glad I could help.  I thought I saw an O'Reilly book on Bash
> at Bolen's.  I was raised by wolves myself (learned by example) and the
> man page is quite good.  Also, a surprising number of system programs
> are bash scripts, and they provide a lot of useful examples.
> Try `grep "#! /bin/sh' /usr/sbin/*`

Peter, along with Noel's suggestions you might also like to try the bash FAQ
at http://wooledge.org/mywiki/BashFaq. That's a most useful link Barbara
just discovered the other day as part of her loll.sf.net work.  The Bash FAQ
is based on frequently asked questions on the channel #bash on the IRC
network, and it is absolutely loaded with all kinds of interesting bash
examples.

Alan
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