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bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users'
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Eric Blake |
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bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users' |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:17:51 -0700 |
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On 02/18/2013 11:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> Thanks for replying, Eric and Bob.
> One more point: a long time ago, I too thought about adding -h
> as an alias for --help for these 100-or-so programs, but even then,
> there were numerous commands for which -h was already accepted,
> but with a different meaning.
We COULD add -? as an alias for --help across the board; except that I'm
not a fan of using shell metacharacters which require quoting to avoid
unintentional globbing matches (nothing worse than having behavior
change based on the contents of the current working directory).
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users', (continued)
- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users', Bernhard Voelker, 2013/02/18
- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users', Jim Meyering, 2013/02/18
- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users', Bob Proulx, 2013/02/18
- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users', anatoly techtonik, 2013/02/18
- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users', anatoly techtonik, 2013/02/18
- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users', Eric Blake, 2013/02/18
- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users', anatoly techtonik, 2013/02/18
- bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users',
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