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by wchar_t 1497 days ago
Indeed, I passionately hate programs where the order of the options and files/arguments matter just as much as the options themselves.
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Given that ImageMagick can describe a sequence of operations (much like commands piped together), the order is obviously significant.

The exact same holds for ffmpeg command-line.

The `find` command is extremely useful, but user-friendly, it is not.

  $ find -type f Data/
  find: paths must precede expression: `Data/'
  find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate `-type'?
sigh