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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Minor BKM: -comment_knob

I find it convenient to give certain programs a command line option that is just a placeholder, which ignoeres its string argument.  Just to hold comments.

Especially useful in a test, so you can say

   command -comment_knob 'expect failure' -illegal-option ...


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