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Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h]
From: |
Alfred M\. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h] |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:01:58 +0200 |
We'll all have to remember to use --help long option if -h is not going
to be consistent then.
Your argument really doesn't make any sense. -h is used for other
things than getting a usage message in GNU tools, making -h a alias
for --help in some GNU tools would only lead to utter confusion.
Right now all you have to remeber is `--help', where as with your
proposal you'll have to remeber that objcopy's -h produces a usage
message, df outputs things in a human readable format, string outputs
a usage message, tar dereferences symbolic links, etc etc etc.
Sorry, but --help is consistent, -h is not. -? is infact more common
than -h since argp uses this as a alias for --help.
- [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h], J. Grant, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h], Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h], J. Grant, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h], Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h], J. Grant, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h],
Alfred M\. Szmidt <=
- Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h], J. Grant, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h], Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h], Andreas Schwab, 2005/09/17