grep is always recursive

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:16 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Given the way the shell does expansion, and the way arguments are passed
> to C programs, how would you design get opt to eliminate this problem?
> I don't think it's possible to "fix" this in getopt (which is not used
> by all C programs anyway)

getopt should be used by almost all the CLI tools, except perhaps 'dd'
which has always been an outlier. :-)

BTW, the Perl Getopts module has the same problem.  So it is not just
the getopt library.  Personally, I do not think it is fixable in a
general way. This problem is a corner case IMHO.
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