Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:10:56 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD Message-ID: <b79ecaef0906060910x38095dd2t2923367c8bc75f8a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906061148350.90514@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906040113270.28607@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> <b79ecaef0906050950m53fda524i5652f57b1ac389ad@mail.gmail.com> <200906051208.43135.kirk@strauser.com> <b79ecaef0906051323s64a89fe2x134290524b633978@mail.gmail.com> <4A29EBB7.9090100@strauser.com> <20090606094648.GA10672@ei.bzerk.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906061148350.90514@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>: >>> what some single-letter option meant. =A0I pretty much never use them o= n >>> the command line, though. >> >> Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in >> scripts, >> tutorials, howto's etc. >> The other reason often mentioned, there being not enough letters in the >> alphabet to cover all possible options, in my opinion advocates bloated >> software (one program can do it all), which goes against the Unix paradi= gm >> of making small programs that do one task exceptionally well and just >> chaining these together. > > you exaggerate a bit. > > for example rsync does have >26 options but most make sense for program t= hat > is dedicated to one task, and it isn't against Unix paradigm. > > But it have one letter shortcuts for mostly used parameters > Can I be picky and point out it's actually 52 short options? [chris@amnesiac]~% ls -f quantumdot mail cromwell_1024.bin.gz public_html bnreg amnesiackey.pub backup.sh.gz cromwell.bin.gz check-portupgrade.pl why.c teamspeak [chris@amnesiac]~% ls -F amnesiackey.pub cromwell.bin.gz quantumdot/ backup.sh.gz cromwell_1024.bin.gz teamspeak/ bnreg/ mail/ why.c check-portupgrade.pl public_html/ [chris@amnesiac]~% for just one example.... Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?
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