* On 2006.05.26, in <20060526121357.ga6...@parhelion.globnix.org>, * "Phil Pennock" <phil.penn...@globnix.org> wrote: > > "-h" means "act on a symlink itself, rather than the file pointed to". > "-H" means "follow symlinks pointing to directories, when traversing". > etc etc.
Sure. It also means "show me data quantities in pretty MG and GB and TB values instead of large KB values", and it means "hostname" in a lot of programs. There are plenty of cases where it can't be used for help now, but it doesn't all add up to "-h should never key in help." -- -D. d...@uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago
