OK, I now believe it was a mistake suggesting we should have a short
form of *each* option. I agree that I wouldn't run the options together
like you can with tar.
I just want to make sure we have thought this through as now is our last
chance to change it before introducing migration issues for supported
releases.
Considering the depoy tool uses "--" for its options so we should try to
be consistent, here is my final attempt, trying to follow the short (-)
and long (--) convention. I actually have a habit of using the long
form of options when coding commands in scripts for
readability/supportability.
--quiet ** changed from -quiet **
-v --verbose
-vv --veryverbose
--override ** changed from -override **
-h --help
--long ** new option to change startup to use long progress
format **
And we would support (but not actually document):
-help
/?
John
Aaron Mulder wrote:
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
