[noahjk]

I would go as far as to say short flags should never be shared or saved (besides man pages or similar). Long flags help anyone who needs to review something in the future, even the author. Perfect for scripts of all sorts, tutorials, anything checked into git, etc.

[sebazzz]

Powershell recommendations, for instance, are that you keep aliases and short-form for yourself, and long-form for scripts and tutorials.

    Remove-Item -Path X:\test\ -Recurse -Force

    del X:\test -rec -for