[Surfraw-devel] Leading dashes in google queries
Andy Valencia
ajv-914-325-0787 at vsta.org
Thu Mar 26 14:17:50 UTC 2009
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Hi,
> vandys at deepthought$ google pocketerm -palm
> google ERROR: bad option "-palm". Try google -help for usage information
I think dash arguments should be ignored after the first simple search
term.
> vandys at deepthought$ google -- pocketerm -palm
> google ERROR: bad option "-palm". Try google -help for usage information
> vandys at deepthought$
But even if you don't agree with that, you should certainly honor "--"
as ending arguments; this is standard behavior in command line
utilities.
This is version 2.2.1, the latest on Ubuntu.
Thanks,
Andy Valencia
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