Description of problem: # echo --foo --bar --foo --bar # But: # /bin/echo --foo --bar --bar # Ouch. Lost we "--foo" in translation? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-6.10-11 How reproducible: Strange echo behaviour. Actual results: /bin/echo --foo --bar drops first argument/parameter?! Expected results: No argument/parameter dropping any longer - and AFAIK as in the past.
Thanks for report, what you see was requested change to have option separator in echo (see #431005 for details). It seemed reasonable to have that separator at first sight. I was wrong... Now I'm sure (in fact before your bug report, I had discussion on upstream mailing list about that misunderstanding) that this is wrong idea and it will be fixed in next rawhide build. Sorry for that once more time.
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