Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
> Certainly some inconsistent behavior. echo takes multiple arguments, but
only
> when they are the short options -[neE] (I guess it's okay that they don't
have
> long-option variants?). But when --help or --version is present, echo acts
> like it takes exactly
Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
>
>> Some of these programs recognize the @option{--help} and @option{--version}
>> -options only when one of them is the sole command line argument.
>> +options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. For
>> +these programs, abb
Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
>
>> Certainly some inconsistent behavior. echo takes multiple arguments, but
> only
>> when they are the short options -[neE] (I guess it's okay that they don't
> have
>> long-option variants?). But when --help or --version is present, echo acts
Eric Blake wrote:
> src/truncate.c: printf (_("Usage: %s OPTION... FILE...\n"),
> program_name);
>
> Inconsistent formatting. Do we really want to require either -r or -s, or
> would it make sense to make OPTION optional, in which case the default is
> -s0?
I'm not sure that's a desira
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According to Pádraig Brady on 12/30/2008 2:46 AM:
>> Usage: truncate [OPTION]... [FILE]...
>
> Is supporting stdin a useful enhancement?
> Maybe if you can get the shell to open
> different files based on some condition,
> though again that seems a li
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 15:00:18 Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Pádraig Brady on 12/30/2008 2:46 AM:
> >> Usage: truncate [OPTION]... [FILE]...
> >
> > Is supporting stdin a useful enhancement?
er ...
> > Maybe if you can get the shell to open
> > different files based on some condition,
> >
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According to Jim Meyering on 12/29/2008 10:22 AM:
>> Would this usage text be acceptable at better describing the situation?
>>
>> Usage: /bin/echo [SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]...
>> or: /bin/echo LONG-OPTION
>
> Sure.
Here's a first patch that solv
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 12/29/2008 10:22 AM:
>>> Would this usage text be acceptable at better describing the situation?
>>>
>>> Usage: /bin/echo [SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]...
>>> or: /bin/echo LONG-OPTION
>>
>> Sure.
>
> Here's a first patch that solves the issues that
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According to Jim Meyering on 12/29/2008 10:02 AM:
>> $ /bin/[ --help me | head -n1
>> /bin/[: missing `]'
>> $ /bin/[ --help | head -n1
>> Usage: test EXPRESSION
>> $ /bin/[ --hel | head -n1
>> Usage: test EXPRESSION
>>
>> Should the last example also
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 12/29/2008 10:02 AM:
>>> $ /bin/[ --help me | head -n1
>>> /bin/[: missing `]'
>>> $ /bin/[ --help | head -n1
>>> Usage: test EXPRESSION
>>> $ /bin/[ --hel | head -n1
>>> Usage: test EXPRESSION
>>>
>>> Should the last example also complain about mis
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According to Jim Meyering on 1/10/2009 10:48 AM:
> "[" feels like it should be the exception.
> I see treating --v like --version as a feature. a typing saver.
> But with "[", it's good to minimize the number of strings that
> make it act differently.
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 1/10/2009 10:48 AM:
>> "[" feels like it should be the exception.
>> I see treating --v like --version as a feature. a typing saver.
>> But with "[", it's good to minimize the number of strings that
>> make it act differently.
>>
>> Besides, why ma
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According to Jim Meyering on 1/10/2009 2:32 PM:
>>> "[" feels like it should be the exception.
>>> I see treating --v like --version as a feature. a typing saver.
>>> But with "[", it's good to minimize the number of strings that
>>> make it act diffe
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 1/10/2009 2:32 PM:
"[" feels like it should be the exception.
I see treating --v like --version as a feature. a typing saver.
But with "[", it's good to minimize the number of strings that
make it act differently.
>>>
>>> O
Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
> Some of these programs recognize the @option{--help} and @option{--version}
> -options only when one of them is the sole command line argument.
> +options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. For
> +these programs, abbreviations of the long opti
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