Re: [Refdb-users] to quote or not to quote (Curious refdbc -C "getref ..." behaviour)

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Marc Herbert writes:
 > Ah OK. I naively thought that all arguments after the "-C command"
 > were ignored by refdbc and passed to the "command".
 > 

refdbc uses GNU getopt to read the command line (which is also
mentioned in the manual). This version of getopt is insensitive to the
option/argument order, except when you use '--'. That is, these two
are absolutely equivalent:

refdbc -h -C getref
refdbc -C getref -h

 > Just like I naively thought that:
 > 
 >  refdbc whatever -h whatever
 > 
 >  would syntax error. Of course, a syntax error could also...=A0display a
 > short help, as most tools do :-)
 > 

With GNU getopt, this is no syntax error, hence no error message. The
first "whatever" is the first non-option argument to refdbc. Unless
you call a command that utilizes an argument, it will be ignored. Try
the following:

refdbc mydata.ris -C addref

regards,
Markus

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