Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 12:14:06 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: trivial mkpasswd defect To: Bernard A Badger , cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: In-Reply-To: Reply-To: Michael A Chase Message-Id: On Wed, 29 May 2002 12:27:15 -0400 Bernard A Badger 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. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/