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Re: [Nmh-workers] attach
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] attach |
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Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:55:50 -0500 |
Oliver wrote:
> David Levine wrote:
> > Note that the current "attach -r" is an undocumented relic of the
> > implementation, because whatnow passes the -r to ls. Maybe it
> > shouldn't even be allowed. The whatnow documentation specifically
> > says "attach files".
>
> attach clearly passes any option you like to ls. And note that -r
> reverses the order of the files rather than making it recursive. If
> we keep the ls based implementation, it might be better to include
> an initial -- so options can't be used.
Does POSIX ls support -- ?
David