On 02/18/2013 11:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Thanks for replying, Eric and Bob. > One more point: a long time ago, I too thought about adding -h > as an alias for --help for these 100-or-so programs, but even then, > there were numerous commands for which -h was already accepted, > but with a different meaning.
We COULD add -? as an alias for --help across the board; except that I'm not a fan of using shell metacharacters which require quoting to avoid unintentional globbing matches (nothing worse than having behavior change based on the contents of the current working directory). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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