Erwin Waterlander <[email protected]> writes: It's a bit difficult to follow top-posted emails, when the conversation does not flow naturally.
>> From user perspective, unifying the command line options would be a good >> thing, thus I propose moving forward with -v, --verbose and -V, >> --version as they are also GNU standards. >> > I have not searched much, but what I have seen so far is that Gnu > standardises only on the long options. > See > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLine-Interfaces.html > Can you point me to a document about standardised short options? We can observe the use of equivalent short options in GNU programs (as shows in previous messages). The utilities that are used daily, those of: cp -v mv -v ssh -v -v ... determine what is is the interpreted meaning of lowercase "-v". many use that daily to mean "verbose" It should not be a big switch for other programs to follow similar convention. A more consistent interface would be welcomed in all aspects. Those other programs that you referred to, that use -v differently, would be welcomed to change accordingly. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
