dce@sony.com (David Elliott) (10/20/89)
Here's an interesting problem. In bash, the echo command can take the options -n and -e. We are using bash with the C news inews program (our standard sh is broken and we aren't ready to upgrade to a new release), and inews wants to do an echo "-- " Bash's echo sees this and gives an invalid flag message. In this case, I simply changed the line to echo "BB " | tr B - but it seems reasonable to me that there should be a way to say "There are no more options; process the rest of the line as it is". -- David Elliott dce@sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce