On 10/06/15 21:00, Justin Cormack wrote:
I dont think the -T is necessary but the -o would be nice, as it is very confusing - I was expecting the last parameter to be the output one.
Hmm, I guess having the output last would be more like other unix utilities such as cp, mv, ... When I dropped the options, I think I thought it looks enough like strcpy() so there was consistency with something. The other thinking was that having the varargs last allows for easy use with xargs etc.
I don't think unexpected order justifies an -o flag, though. For example, the aforementioned cp etc. don't have an -o flag so that you wouldn't have to remember which way the arguments go. If you can't remember the order, how would you remember it's -o instead of e.g. -d?
I don't mind changing the order. Anyone else have an opinion?
