[Help-gnunet] Re: gnunet-search

[Christian Grothoff]

On Monday 19 April 2004 02:28 pm, you wrote:
> If i understand the output of gnunet-search right it should be used for
> cut&paste .. But then why are there these "--" in the way. It seems to work
> fine when i just do cut&paste but if i append -V for example i get a
> problem with the argument parser it seems.
>
> Not enough arguments. You must specify atleast a GNUnet AFS URI
>
> Is there a use for the "--". Because if i delete them by hand i can append
> -V if not i need to put the -V in front of it. Just cause it costs little
> time in the commandline editing ;)

"--" is an artefact from the times where the GNUnet file identifier CRC was 
possibly negative and at that point it was necessary to prepend the "--" 
which in GNU options separates options from the other arguments.  We should 
probably remove it from the output.

C