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fromfile parser does not support escaping prefix character
I did not find any documentation on how to escape the prefix character if needed. And none of my attempts were successful:
- myprog @@escaped-arg
- myprog '@escaped-arg'
In both of these cases, argfile attempts to read the non-existent "[@]escaped-arg" file.
iirc when I looked into this, I did not see an implementation that supported escaping, e.g. python's