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On 04/17/2014 10:34 AM, Nicolas wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm struggling with nsenter to call commands with options because they 
> are caught by nsenter and complain this is an invalid option.
> 
> How can I pass any arbitrary argument ?
> 
> Thanks for reading,
> Nicolas
> 
> ```
> $ nsenter --target $PID --mount --uts --ipc --net --pid ls -a
> nsenter: invalid option -- 'a'

Use '--' to tell nsenter to stop option parsing:
  $ nsenter --target $PID --mount --uts --ipc --net --pid -- ls -a

Although I think this can be considered a bug; nsenter should
do this automatically when seeing the first non-option.

Have a nice day,
Berny