Re: Making copies of files

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 08:24:33PM +0200, michael-franzese@gmx.com wrote:
> Am trying to figure out what the option "--" does with cp.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html#tag_12_02

Guideline 10:
    The first -- argument that is not an option-argument should be
    accepted as a delimiter indicating the end of options. Any following
    arguments should be treated as operands, even if they begin with the
    '-' character.