On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, John Martinez wrote:
On Jul 14, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Sunil wrote:
have you considered providing gnu like long options and/or compatibility
for star? it will be perfect if there was only one tar utility and all gnu
programs with gnu options for /usr/bin/tar don't just die on solaris.
I can try doing this mapping if you point me to source of star.
Am I the only one that doesn't like the --something-or-other options of GNU
related software? Please don't do this to Solaris!
No, you are not alone :) The one big thing I absolutely *hate* is
the '--help', when a '-?' should do the trick (and usually did on non-gnu
stuff).
$ ls -?
ls: invalid option -- ?
Try `ls --help' for more information.
Augh! :)
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