Chris Rees wrote:
Traditional:
% tar xzvf bluurgh.tgz
GNU recommended:
$ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz
Seriously, why are long options encouraged?
Scripting. I almost always use long options when writing scripts I
might use again later so that 6 months later I don't have to remember
what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
the command line, though.
--
Kirk Strauser
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