Sean Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Piotr,
>
> > Well, I think it's worse then lack of order in the GNU's parameters.
>
> Most command line utilities in (Open)Solaris, and other UNIXes will take
> arguments in any sequence; the only caveat to that is when an option
> takes a parameter (eg. filename) which is usually bound to the option. I
> think that the phrase "in the GNU's parameters" needs clarification.
It depends. Some programs allow to mix options and files but most
historic UNIX programs stop option processing after seeing the first file
type argument.
Example:
NAME
rm - remove directory entries
SYNOPSIS
rm [-fiRr] file...
Jörg
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