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Title	Unix Tip: Terminating Options Processing with --
Type	Tip
Source	ITworld 02/26/2008
Summary	To understand how this works, think back to how the shell processes what it sees on the command line. If we type "ls -l a", for example, the shell translates a into a list of all files that begin with the letter "a" and then makes the appropriate system calls to provide a detailed listing of those files, complete with owners, sizes and most recently changed dates and times. continue

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