Hi Norm, > > tr -d '\012 -~' <foo | od -c > > I have a request (a request, not a demand!). When a command has both a > '-' option and a '--' option for the same feature, use the '--' > version in examples.
I take your point, but the problem is... I don't know the long versions and my fingers certainly know only the short ones. Indeed, faced with `grep --text' I have to scurry off and find out what on earth is meant. :-) I quite like Go's standard library's take on things, single - but multiple letters possible, e.g. -i -verbose -f, but they rule out combining so no -if, and I think I'd tire of all that ` -'. Given POSIX eschews long options altogether and the work needed for me to substitute, I'd rather stick as is. Oft used single-letter options often occur in groups anyway, e.g. hexdump's -ve, and I rearrange to make them look like words for easier recall, e.g. netstat's -tulepn and rsync's -PacivHAX. Cheers, Ralph. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
