On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Helge Hafting wrote:
I noticed that the "true" and "false" programs are somewhat bloated, on i386 they need 3 4k-pages of code when the trivial implementation in the subject line only need one.
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I can only guess that someone is trying to standardize the use of --help and --version. But standardization can be overdone and doing things to the extreme don't really make sense.
You guess correctly - these options are recommended by the GNU coding standards. I respectfully disagree that the --help output is excessive and better avoided; rather that a user should expect --help to behave consistently across all coreutils/GNU apps. As familiar as they are to experienced users, the names "true"/"false" are not self-descriptive.
Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
