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What is the importance of -- in terminal?

Say I have a command to install pygame : pip install -- user pygame What is the importance of "--"

14th Oct 2021, 12:48 AM
Richard
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It tells pip that what follows is an option, not the name of a package to install.
14th Oct 2021, 12:57 AM
Simon Sauter
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'--' is for long options '-' is for short for example: gcc test.c -o test and pacman -S --noconfirm vlc
14th Oct 2021, 7:01 AM
Slick
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