Re: Command-line parameters


Subject: Re: Command-line parameters
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 15:32:52 CDT


According to Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com>:
>
> I thought that single-dashes *were* a longstanding Unix convention, and that
> more verbose double-dash equivalents are a more recent GNU augmentation that
> not everyone likes. But hey, what do I know.

Signle dashes are for short and combinable option.
think

tar -zxvf
or
ps -auxwf

Double dashes are for long option
Think
./configure --enable-debug

That is the GNU standard, it is consistant and works.
BTW, Win users expect /option

Hub



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