Document long options's behaviour (such as --rcfile) when there are no =

• Reporter: hckiang
• Owner: magicant
• Type: Feature Requests
• Status: Open [Owner assigned]
• Component: document
• MileStone: (None)
• Priority: 1 - Lowest
• Severity: 1 - Lowest
• Resolution: None
• File: None

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It seems to me that although not documented, yash --rcfile foo.sh seems to work. The form without the equal sign is very handy when one starts the shell in C (for example, execl("/bin/yash", "yash", "--rcfile", somefile)). It would be nice if this behaviour is documented or shown in the --help page.

Ticket History (2/2 Histories)

2022-12-01 03:01 Updated by: hckiang

• New Ticket "Document long options's behaviour (such as --rcfile) when there are no =" created

2022-12-04 00:36 Updated by: magicant

• Owner Update from (None) to magicant
• Component Update from (None) to document

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It's documented in: https://yash.osdn.jp/doc/builtin.html#argsyntax

The rule for the equal sign is so universal that it may be too verbose to mention the rule in every description of a long option...