Greg Minshall wrote: >> Slightly off-topic and moderately unpopular: find(1) doesn't quite well >> fit into the Unix userland. It starts with the syntax: multiletter >> options (POSIX calls them operands though), the $program $option(s) >> $file(s) order (compare the find's "do where what" vs natural -- like >> sed's or grep's -- "do what where"), and the overall purpose of the >> utility: it should construct a list of files/directories and match the >> given pattern. > > fwiw, the standards such as long options starting with "--", etc., came > out many years after 'find' (or, 'dd', for that matter) were released.
Yes, sir, and I think it was GNU who came up with this (see getopt(3) of glibc). Guideline 10 of the Utility Conventions[0] states that "--" marks the end of options. [0]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html -- caóc
