On 2011-08-10 09:26, Jens Mueller wrote:
I think short options with no space are supported because a number of
people (don't know how many) type no spaces.
For example
$ ping -c1<some host>
vs
$ ping -c 1<some host>
Both work. ping's documentation explains the -c option using a space.
I.e. the documentation is easy to read.
Supporting it does not break anything for you. And this way it does no
harm to anybody. The only reason for dropping it may be inconsistency,
i.e. why does it only work for numeric values.
Jens
Just saying I don't like that. I won't break anything for me but it will
let people continue to implement tools which uses this syntax.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
