Re: [PATCH 4/9] bashgetopt: define long option shortener function

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/7/24 7:11 PM, Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira wrote:

> > If you consider the current form would be complete, you should provide
> > the reason that the other builtins should not have the long form of
> > the options, while only the source builtin should have a long option.
>
> I don't understand why they don't all have long options to begin with.
> Is there a reason for it?

I don't think they're needed for builtins. --help is an extremely special
case.

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