On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:51:32AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> The second concern pertained to the fact that for some of
> those same options, the presence of an argument is optional.
> The members present felt that while such an "optional argu-
> ment" might be ambiguous for a short flag, for long options
> there is no ambiguity (because of the separating "="), and
> hence the behavior is acceptable.
Long options aren't required to be separated from their option arguments
with an equals sign, though they can be -- they can also be separated by a
space:
/usr/gnu/bin/ls --sort none
and
/usr/gnu/bin/ls --sort=none
are equivalent. Perhaps long options and optional arguments can only be
separated by an equals sign? Certainly ls --help indicates that only
--color takes an optional argument, and it cannot be separated from the
option with a space, but I don't know if this holds true in general.
Danek
