regtool 2.11.1 need a way to specify leading "-" in values
Eric Blake
eblake@redhat.com
Tue Jan 22 23:21:00 GMT 2019
On 1/22/19 5:12 PM, Gordon Grimes wrote:
> I believe there is no way to specify values with leading "-" in regtool. I expect the same applies to keys. An "end of switch processing" switch would be useful, forcing 'regtool' to interpret all remaining arguments literally.
Fortunately, you are mistaken. regtool uses getopt_long(), and
therefore, like all other programs that use this, automatically inherits
the POSIX rule that '--' is the marker for "end of switch processing".
>
> Example:
> % regtool -s set '\HKCU\Environment\MAVEN_OPTS' "-Xms512m -Xmx3072m -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote"
> regtool: unknown option -- X
> Try `regtool --help' for more information.
Try:
regtool -s set '\HKCU\Environment\MAVEN_OPS' -- "-Xms512m -Xmx3072m
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote"
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
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