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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow flag: -combined ?
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow flag: -combined ? |
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Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:04:53 -0400 |
>> perhaps -concat/-noconcat ?
>
>That's good, but why not -cat for catenate, where cat(1) gets its name.
Huh, I always thought that cat(1) was short for conCATenate (at least
that's what the man page says). I don't know if there was something
called "con" back then. -concat makes sense to me. -cat ... well, it
doesn't make as much sense to me.
>Hmmm...I wonder how to describe the case when the output is not
>concatenated...what about:
>
> --DistinctOutputGrouping
>
>which could just be abbreviated:
>
> -dog
This almost tipped the scales toward -cat, though :-)
--Ken
Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow flag: -combined ?, bergman, 2014/03/22
Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow flag: -combined ?, Robert Elz, 2014/03/23