Re: Move command line options to start of line

[Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the last episode (Oct 07), Bart Schaefer said:
> On Oct 7,  1:02pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> } Consider (example contrived on the spur of the moment, but not
> } wholly unrealistic):
> } 
> }   su -c 'rm -f .zshrc' username -l
> 
> But does
> 
>     su -c'rm -f .zshrc' username
> 
> work in a true POSIX shell?  Is it required to?

su isn't POSIX, but I don't think either of the above commands should
work.  -c isn't an option to su, it's an option to the shell launched
by su, so it should follow the username.  Linux's su apparently passes
-c on to the shell, but no other OSes do (and some use -c themselves).

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	Dan Nelson
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