Feature Request: standards compliant command line parameter syntax about clipboard HOT 5 CLOSED

Clipboard intentionally breaks the rules here, so changing this syntax to only be the other option would make Clipboard worse. However, I'm open to adding a different supported syntax, but what would you do if you needed to copy a file with name "-c"?

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The standard solution is to have a parameter named -- which stops parsing of later dashes as options and treats them as literal strings. So clipboard copy -c 1 -- -c would copy the file named -c to clipboard #1 (if -c specifies the clipboard number).

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11376/what-does-double-dash-mean

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Done, added in latest commit f9e83ed and we don't have to check for -- because Clipboard's current code will only check for the -c or --clipboard= once.

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Does that mean that you have to specify -c 1 -c 1 to copy files named -c and 1?

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That's one way you could do it, or just 1 -c since the current logic only checks the third argument for the presence of -c (the first being clipboard, the second (action) and the third 1)

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