Partial matching for long options
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Key: CLI-160
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-160
Project: Commons CLI
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Parser
Affects Versions: 1.0
Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
Fix For: 1.3
Partial matching is a common feature among command line processing tools. It
allows to use shorter option names as long as the abbreviation is not ambiguous.
For example on Debian
{noformat}ls --he{noformat}
is equivalent to
{noformat}ls --help{noformat}
but
{noformat}ls --h{noformat}
returns the error "option `--h' is ambiguous", because 'h' is also the prefix
of the --hide option.
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