From: Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commands: help: ignore options after first regular argument
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:21:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230614142137.GB18491@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230614090231.4141827-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 11:02:31AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> If some-command -n foo bar -v fails, it would be nice to be able to
> just stick help in front of the command to get help text. This doesn't
> work currently, because getopt called for help will complain about not
> knowing some-command's options. Fix this by only parsing help options up
> to the first non-option argument (i.e. one that doesn't start with `-').
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> commands/help.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Just prefix with "help -- " instead of "help "
Sascha
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-14 9:02 [PATCH] commands: help: ignore options after first regular argument Ahmad Fatoum
2023-06-14 14:21 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2023-06-14 14:27 ` Ahmad Fatoum
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