Invalid parsing of an argument (not an option) that start with a dash ?

[fabd]

Hey there

I'm not sure if this is on my end or an actual issue ... this is the first time I'm using laravel zero.

It's really awesome and I quickly started making a simple CLI app that uses Youtube API.

So one of my commands has this at the beginning of the class:

class GetVideoCommand extends Command
{
  /**
   * The signature of the command.
   *
   * @var string
   */
  protected $signature = 'get-video
                            {id : the id of the video (required)}';

So if I do the following it works

./cliapp get-video MXDF0wVcWfA

However the following fails with a big red error message (turns out a lot of YouTube videoId's have a dash at the beginning):

./cliapp get-video -wPg1tNEWmo

The error message:

The "-w" option does not exist.

Unfortunately it seems the single or double quotes do not help:

./cliapp get-video '-wPg1tNEWmo'
./cliapp get-video "-wPg1tNEWmo"

Did I miss something obvious here?

[fabd]

Hmm after Google'in around I see it can work like this :

./cliapp get-video -- -wPg1tNEWmo

Fair enough although I'm not sure why quoting the 'argument' shouldn't work to escape the parsing of the dash but then again I am not a bash/shell script expert so there may be good reasons for it.