On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:10 AM, John Sisson wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
On Dec 1, 2005, at 9:33 PM, John Sisson wrote:
OK, I now believe it was a mistake suggesting we should have a
short form of *each* option.
Why? :)
Why have them just for the sake of it. We would only be
encouraging people to write cryptic scripts that are harder to
support and harder for new users to understand. AFAIK gnu tar has
a number of long options that don't have a short option.
They probably ran out of letters....
I agree that I wouldn't run the options together like you can
with tar.
Why not?
Because I not being a *NIX freak wouldn't think of trying to
obfuscate my commands like that :-)
heh. It's not that hard :)
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
For consistency...
-V --veryverbose
(it needs to be one char...)
I'm happy to change that if others agree.
Thanks for the feedback,
John
--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
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