We'll all have to remember to use --help long option if -h is not going to be consistent then.
Your argument really doesn't make any sense. -h is used for other things than getting a usage message in GNU tools, making -h a alias for --help in some GNU tools would only lead to utter confusion. Right now all you have to remeber is `--help', where as with your proposal you'll have to remeber that objcopy's -h produces a usage message, df outputs things in a human readable format, string outputs a usage message, tar dereferences symbolic links, etc etc etc. Sorry, but --help is consistent, -h is not. -? is infact more common than -h since argp uses this as a alias for --help. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
