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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Several questions -- various topics
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:24:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640611221324p76d6d3f2w183872f5c165bf97@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17CD9CE4C0FA574A8B29EF02D49B385D2A9625@srvexch-01.mcaschool.local>

On 11/22/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@mcaschool.net> wrote:
> If I run gksu shutdown -h now, gksu interperates the -h as a command to
> it, instead of connecting it to the shutdown command.

For gnu getopt, "--" is the standard argument to mark the end of
arguments.  So "gksu -- shutdown -h now" should do what you want.

-Richard
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-20 13:09 [gentoo-user] Several questions -- various topics Timothy A. Holmes
2006-11-20 13:59 ` Michael Crute
2006-11-20 19:50   ` Mick
2006-11-20 21:20     ` Mrugesh Karnik
2006-11-20 23:07       ` Mick
2006-11-20 23:30         ` Flophouse Joe
2006-11-20 23:45           ` Flophouse Joe
2006-11-20 19:22 ` Hans de Hartog
2006-11-22 10:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-11-22 18:39   ` Timothy A. Holmes
2006-11-22 21:24     ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-11-22 21:37     ` Mick

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