Re: [PATCH 4/9] bashgetopt: define long option shortener function

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/8/24 4:37 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:
> 2024年5月8日(水) 8:11 Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira <matheus@matheusmoreira.com>:
> > Some builtins do support long options, even though it seems
> > to not be documented.
>
> I didn't know the `type' builtin recognizes those forms.

Backwards compatibility from the ancient past. Even back then (1989),
`type' was the only builtin that supported any kind of long option;
no other builtins ever have.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/