[ale] One for systemd haters

[Solomon Peachy]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 06:23:29PM +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> As an FYI the “-“ at start of file name doesn’t just affect 
> grep/egrep.  Any command that tries to look at * in a directory will 
> have the issue because it expands that “-“ as if it were an additional 
> flag to the command issued rather than just the start of a file name.

The thing is, leading '-' is perfectly legal for a POSIX filename.  
Which is why getopt and other bog-standard cmdline parsing libraries 
implement the special '--' option to signify that subsequent arguments 
are filenames rather than options.

This quirk of shell wildcard expansion/ambiguity isn't anything new, 
especially to anyone who has had to work with real-world-supplied 
filenames.

 - Solomon
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