-- handling. It may actually be a property of the getopt function
-- rather than the shell proper.
function shellstartsqescape(value)
- res, _ = string.gsub(value, "^\-", "\\-")
- res, _ = string.gsub(res, "^-", "\-")
- return shellsqescape(value)
+ res, _ = string.gsub(value, "^%-", "\\-")
+ return shellsqescape(res)
end
-- containing the resulting substrings. The optional max parameter specifies