Long options are dashed-case, following the GNU convention. POSIX only specifies single character options. The “—“ prefix for long options is a GNU invention, as far as I know. Older Unix commands with long option names, e.g. find, only use a single dash.
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argument-Syntax.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Feb 26, 2024, at 5:29 AM, Eric Pugh <ep...@opensourceconnections.com> > wrote: > > I hear a vote for dashed-case, how about some more votes? —solr-update-url > versus —solrUpdateUrl ? > > > >> On Feb 26, 2024, at 7:29 AM, Jason Gerlowski <gerlowsk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> My guess is that "dashed-case" is slightly more common -- at least, >> that's my sense from haphazardly checking a few tools I use often >> ("curl", "kubectl", "git", "docker"). >> >> But I don't have an opinion as long as we're internally consistent >> about using one convention or the other. >> >> Best, >> >> Jason >> >> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 11:35 AM Eric Pugh >> <ep...@opensourceconnections.com <mailto:ep...@opensourceconnections.com>> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I wanted to get the communities input on formatting of long options for the >>> Solr CLI. I noticed on https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/ >>> that their examples all are —dashed-case. >>> >>> However, we have —solrUrl or —zkHost as our pattern. Though in working on >>> the PostTool, I used —solr-update-url as the parameter because I had been >>> reading the commons-cli docs... >>> >>> I’d like to get this sorted so that I can get >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-16824 over the finish line. So >>> please do speak up with preferences! (And please let’s not support both!) >>> >>> >>> The changes to the formatting will be a 10x thing. >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> _______________________ >>> Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | >>> http://www.opensourceconnections.com >>> <http://www.opensourceconnections.com/><http://www.opensourceconnections.com/> >>> | My Free/Busy <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> >>> Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed >>> <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> >>> This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be >>> Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of >>> whether attachments are marked as such. >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org >> <mailto:dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org >> <mailto:dev-h...@solr.apache.org> > _______________________ > Eric Pugh | Founder & CEO | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | > http://www.opensourceconnections.com <http://www.opensourceconnections.com/> > | My Free/Busy <http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal> > Co-Author: Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server, 3rd Ed > <https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-enterprise-search-server-third-edition-raw> > > This e-mail and all contents, including attachments, is considered to be > Company Confidential unless explicitly stated otherwise, regardless of > whether attachments are marked as such. >
