From b07eca03408b5a8c365d58126bff18c9867c8bd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BlackFrog1 <blackfrog1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:48:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] don't check for the slash (/) as a token on non-Windows
 OS;

---
 PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs

diff --git a/PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs b/PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1285156f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
+namespace PowerArgs
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// 
+    /// https://mariusschulz.com/blog/detecting-the-operating-system-in-net-core
+    /// </summary>
+    public static class OperatingSystem
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Indicates if assembly is running on Windows OS
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns>True if running on Windows OS, false otherwise</returns>
+        public static bool IsWindows() =>
+            RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows);
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file

From 2bd7079ce21d699f6cfaf8035e75b58eff35c16c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BlackFrog1 <blackfrog1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:52:14 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] visual studio 2019 is show the code is not commit;

---
 PowerArgs/HelperTypesInternal/ArgParser.cs | 3 ++-
 PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs               | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PowerArgs/HelperTypesInternal/ArgParser.cs b/PowerArgs/HelperTypesInternal/ArgParser.cs
index fff1c0d4..ba608636 100644
--- a/PowerArgs/HelperTypesInternal/ArgParser.cs
+++ b/PowerArgs/HelperTypesInternal/ArgParser.cs
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ internal static ParseResult Parse(CommandLineArgumentsDefinition Definition, str
                     result.ImplicitParameters.Add(0, token);
                     argumentPosition++;
                 }
-                else if (token.StartsWith("/"))
+                // don't affect tokens on linux & macOS
+                else if (token.StartsWith("/") && OperatingSystem.IsWindows())  
                 {
                     var param = ParseSlashExplicitOption(token);
                     if (result.ExplicitParameters.ContainsKey(param.Key)) throw new DuplicateArgException("Argument specified more than once: " + param.Key);
diff --git a/PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs b/PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs
index 1285156f..f07b24a5 100644
--- a/PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs
+++ b/PowerArgs/OperatingSystem.cs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 namespace PowerArgs
 {
     /// <summary>
-    /// 
+    /// helper class to detect which OS we are on
     /// https://mariusschulz.com/blog/detecting-the-operating-system-in-net-core
     /// </summary>
     public static class OperatingSystem