you can compile gnu coreutils the reason posix and bsd dont allow options after operands is because it complicates the implementation of getopt and it introduces ambiguity, specially with options that take arguments
the gnu getopt has to look at the first characters of every argv member unless -- is used, which is inconvenient in interactive shells On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:09 PM, <vadi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering migrating my desktop from Linux to OpenBSD but the > main feature that > kept me away from *BSD world for over a decade since I've first tried > FreeBSD was the > one that options must only be specified after command before any > arguments. (At least > that is true for basic commands). For example on Linux a command > > B ls -l foo -h > > will print the foo's size with suffix (K, M, G, etc.). On *BSD > (including Mac OS X) I get error > message: > > B ls: -h: No such file or directory > > Is there an easy way to get the desired behavior on OpenBSD? If that > can only be achieved > by patching system's sources is there a standard way to maintain my > personal set of > patches so that they will be automatically applied every time I upgrade system? > > Best regards, > Vadim.
