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by ramses0 4255 days ago
How to be Unix-y in Eleventy-Billion Steps.

http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/the-unix-way-comm...

""" The two surprising finds in the above documents are the standard list of long options and short options from -a to -z.

Forver and a day I am trying to figure out what to name my program options and these two guides definitely help. It allows me to definitively say you should use -c … for “command” instead of -r … for “run” because -r means recurse or reverse. """

--Robert

1 comments

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html lists alternatives for each short option, so which do you choose?