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Subject: cat: invalid option -- h
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:05:19 +
From: J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sure.
Can cat -h be added as an alias of --help please?
Why? Seems utterly useless for --help, rather save it for something
that is potentionally useful.
Cheers.
Hi Alfred,
Thanks for your reply.
Can cat -h be added as an alias of --help please?
Why? Seems utterly useless for --help, rather save it for something
that is potentionally useful.
The GNU convention is to support the short getopt, and getoptlong style
in many utils
for example,
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So why should cat be any different?
Just because two extreme cases support -h as a alias for --help,
doesn't mean that it is a GNU convention. You still haven't given a
good reason why -h should be a alias for --help.
-h is quite uncommon as a alias for
Hi,
On 17/09/05 18:31, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
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So why should cat be any different?
Just because two extreme cases support -h as a alias for --help,
doesn't mean that it is a GNU convention. You still haven't given a
good reason why -h should be a alias
Just because two extreme cases support -h as a alias for --help,
doesn't mean that it is a GNU convention. You still haven't given a
good reason why -h should be a alias for --help.
It is a common getopt option to trigger command line help, the most
common I suggest. --help is the
We'll all have to remember to use --help long option if -h is not going
to be consistent then.
Your argument really doesn't make any sense. -h is used for other
things than getting a usage message in GNU tools, making -h a alias
for --help in some GNU tools would only lead to utter
Hi,
On 17/09/05 20:01, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
We'll all have to remember to use --help long option if -h is not going
to be consistent then.
Your argument really doesn't make any sense. -h is used for other
things than getting a usage message in GNU tools, making -h a alias
for
-h has ended up being used for other purposes than help in GNU
tools. The fact remains that -h is often used for help in GNU
tools, but not in all cases.
It is not used as often as you might think, -? is more common.
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My point is for consistency, it is unclear what the strategy is with -h
in GNU tools, perhaps only a partial idea to use -h for help in some tools.
-h has ended up being used for other purposes than help in GNU tools.
The fact remains that -h is often used for help in GNU tools, but not
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