Comment on Ask HN: How do you search for "-42" in Google?parentComments−eklitzke15yThis is a feature of GNU `getopt`, and I think it's supported by most BSD getopts. It's also recommended behavior by the SUS, see guideline 10: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_...So it's not mandated, but it's the behavior of nearly all modern UNIX systems.
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This is a feature of GNU `getopt`, and I think it's supported by most BSD getopts. It's also recommended behavior by the SUS, see guideline 10: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_...
So it's not mandated, but it's the behavior of nearly all modern UNIX systems.