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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:20:26PM +0100, Klaus Klein wrote:
> Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org> writes:
>=20
> > Wouldn't a script expecting a standard-conforming cp expect that
> > ``cp -v foo'' copies the file ``-v'' to the file ``foo'' ?
>=20
> No.  A script expecting a 'restrictively' conforming cp would be
> broken, since a conforming cp utility may well support additional
> options.  Furthermore, a conforming cp utility shall conform to the
> Utility Syntax Guidelines, which imply use of getopt() option parsing
> (or getopt()-like behaviour), and therefore invoking the utility with
> an unrecognized option character will usually result in an error.
>=20
> What you'd be looking for, in this particular case, is ``cp -- -v
> foo''.
=20
or:

cp ./-v foo

Regards,
	-is

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