Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could
satisfy my ignorance...
Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost
always specified?
-- is the GNU getopt syntax for long
-opt is processed as 6 options ('o', 'p', and 't').
s/6/3/g
eh?
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On 1/19/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--sync is correct. -sync is wrong and generates an error.
Ahem... not for me it didn't... thats why I asked - wondered if I may
What versions of portage python (emerge -pv portage python)?
-Richard
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On 1/19/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-opt is processed as 6 options ('o', 'p', and 't').
s/6/3/g
eh?
It is 'sed' syntax. In english:
replace all ocurrences of the pattern '6' with the string '3'.
-Richard
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Charles Marcus wrote:
Richard Fish wrote:
On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could
satisfy my ignorance...
Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost
always specified?
-- is the GNU
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:39:48 -0500, Michael A. Smith wrote:
Now, why did it not generate an error for me, I wonder?
Maybe you're thinking of emerge sync:
$ emerge -sync
!!! Error: -y is an invalid short action or option.
Same here. emerge -sync is the same as emerge -s -y -n -c.
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