> > > > Just because two extreme cases support -h as a alias for --help, > > doesn't mean that it is a GNU convention. You still haven't given a > > good reason why -h should be a alias for --help. > > It is a common getopt option to trigger command line help, the most > common I suggest. --help is the most common getoptlong option in GNU. > Perhaps there is a GNU standard which covers this aspect of programs > user-friendly-ness.
The GNU coding standards ONLY require --help, and not -h, because of the fact that -h is ambiguous and some commands already have it standardized to mean something other than help. If you want help from a GNU program, --help is the only spelling that is guaranteed to work. > We'll all have to remember to use --help long option if -h is not going > to be consistent then. We can agree to differ on that if you cannot > agree with my proposal. You are correct - coreutils is not going to add -h where it does not already exist, because --help already exists. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
