[Toybox] Allow --help after other arguments?
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Wed Jun 9 17:02:39 PDT 2021
On 6/8/21 9:11 PM, Ryan Prichard via Toybox wrote:
> $ ls -l --help
> ls: Unknown option 'help' (see "ls --help")
>
> I tend to add `--help` to the end of a command line that I'm constructing, so I
> was surprised by toybox's requirement that `--help` be first. Maybe toybox
> should be more accommodating?
>
> Maybe it'd matter more with an alias, e.g.:
>
> $ alias ls='ls --color=auto'
>
> $ ls --help
> ls: Unknown option 'help' (see "ls --help")
Hmmm, you've got a point.
Try now?
Rob
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