Philipp Thomas wrote: > * Jim Meyering (j...@meyering.net) [20110113 08:53]: > >> > * Add --suffix [suffix] to enable suffix killing (using >> > SUFFIX as the 2nd arg will no longer work going forward) > > Using SUFFIX as the second argument IMO has to keep working as otherwise > you'll break tons of scripts!
What I think he meant is that we'll need a --suffix=SUFF option to specify a suffix, since when in --filter mode, each input will be treated as a file/dir name. Whereas, on the command line, we'll still accept only 1 or 2 args.