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Posted on 2022/02/16 by Justin Sherrill
Option options for getopt

I realize my title is a little bit buffalo buffalo buffalo, but it makes sense: getopt(3) now has a double colon option to indicate an optional argument.  I link to it because I like seeing the length of the trip to DragonFly.  It started as a GNU option, then showed up in NetBSD, brought to FreeBSD, and now I’m posting about it.

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