From 9c0e14ba35646764b353742199eaa6d51bedb41d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: emma <emma@tebibyte.media>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 00:48:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tentative argument parsing

---
 src/bin/cat.rs | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/cat.rs b/src/bin/cat.rs
index 364ae04..afe7f8f 100644
--- a/src/bin/cat.rs
+++ b/src/bin/cat.rs
@@ -8,16 +8,30 @@ use std::process;
 
 fn main() {
   let args: Vec<String> = env::args().skip(1).collect();
-
-  for i in args {
-    let mut arg = i.as_str();
-    match arg {
-      "-u" => process::exit(1),
-
-      _ => {
-        print!("{}", read_to_string(arg).unwrap())
-      },
-    };
+  let mut opts = Vec::new();
+  
+  for arg in &args {
+    if arg.starts_with("-") {
+      opts.push(arg);
+    }
   }
+
+  if opts.is_empty() == false {
+    for option in opts {
+      match option.as_str() {
+        // Write  bytes  from the input file to the standard output without
+        // delay as each is read.
+        "-u" => {},
+
+        _ => process::exit(1),
+      };
+    }
+  }
+  else { 
+    for path in args {
+      print!("{}", read_to_string(path).unwrap());
+    }
+  }
+
   stdout().flush().unwrap();
 }