On 12/1/05, David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't really mean that each option *has* to have a short version-- > there are only so many letters and numbers. But something like this...
I know that many tools have established a convention. I just don't like it for this case. I surely run tar -xzpvf and appreciate not having to type long names for all the separate flags. But I don't use Geronimo with 5 flags that way. No one will combine help with anything, many of the remaining flags covering the startup are at least to some degree mutually exclusive, I *want* it to be harder to type the override flag because no one should ever use it, ... I can't put my finger on a single specific thing, I just don't like the idea as a whole. Sorry! :) Aaron > Here are the options for some common/powerful command line tools: > > wget http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/wget-options.txt > tar http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/tar-options.txt > rsync http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/rsync-options.txt > patch http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/patch-options.txt > grep http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/grep-options.txt > diff http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/diff-options.txt > > > -D --David > >
