On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:59:28PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:46:51PM -0700, benfell@parts-unknown.org wrote:
This issue is all about shell interpretation--before the command string even gets to the command.
Apparently zsh handles this differently from what was stated here earlier. If this is indeed the case this is arguably a zsh bug.
I don't know. I couldn't reproduce the behavior today:
[benfell@munich]~% print $SHELL /bin/zsh [benfell@munich]~% touch -- --DoingMyselfIn [benfell@munich]~% ls -al -- --DoingMyselfIn -rw-rw-r-- 1 benfell benfell 0 Apr 2 18:10 --DoingMyselfIn [benfell@munich]~% rm -- --DoingMyselfIn [benfell@munich]~% ls -al -- --DoingMyselfIn ls: cannot access --DoingMyselfIn: No such file or directory [benfell@munich]~%