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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:29:49 -0500
From: Aaron Mulder <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu>
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Subject: Re: [LONG] Daemon command line option conventions - need to agree
 before 1.0
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I like that more.

Thanks,
    Aaron

On 12/1/05, John Sisson <jrsisson@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I now believe it was a mistake suggesting we should have a short
> form of *each* option.  I agree that I wouldn't run the options together
> like you can with tar.
>
> I just want to make sure we have thought this through as now is our last
> chance to change it before introducing migration issues for supported
> releases.
>
> Considering the depoy tool uses "--" for its options so we should try to
> be consistent, here is my final attempt, trying to follow the short (-)
> and long (--) convention.  I actually have a habit of using the long
> form of options when coding commands in scripts for
> readability/supportability.
>
>       --quiet              ** changed from -quiet **
> -v    --verbose
> -vv   --veryverbose
>       --override           ** changed from -override **
> -h    --help
>       --long               **  new option to change startup to use long p=
rogress format **
>
> And we would support (but not actually document):
>
> -help
> /?
>
> John
>
> Aaron Mulder wrote:
>
> >On 12/1/05, David Blevins <david.blevins@visi.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I didn't really mean that each option *has* to have a short version--
> >>there are only so many letters and numbers.  But something like this...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I know that many tools have established a convention.  I just don't
> >like it for this case.  I surely run tar -xzpvf and appreciate not
> >having to type long names for all the separate flags.  But I don't use
> >Geronimo with 5 flags that way.  No one will combine help with
> >anything, many of the remaining flags covering the startup are at
> >least to some degree mutually exclusive, I *want* it to be harder to
> >type the override flag because no one should ever use it, ...  I can't
> >put my finger on a single specific thing, I just don't like the idea
> >as a whole.  Sorry!  :)
> >
> >Aaron
> >
> >
> >
> >>Here are the options for some common/powerful command line tools:
> >>
> >>   wget   http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/wget-options.txt
> >>   tar    http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/tar-options.txt
> >>   rsync  http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/rsync-options.txt
> >>   patch  http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/patch-options.txt
> >>   grep   http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/grep-options.txt
> >>   diff   http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/cli/diff-options.txt
> >>
> >>
> >>-D --David
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>