Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:32:40 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD Message-ID: <ade45ae90906062132n75684a90wfff297ea090c8449@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0906060910x38095dd2t2923367c8bc75f8a@mail.gmail.com> 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> <b79ecaef0906060910x38095dd2t2923367c8bc75f8a@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/6/09, Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>: >>>> what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on >>>> 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 >>> paradigm >>> 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 >> that >> 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 and digits add another 10. We're up to 62 single-character options. I'm sure punctuation will be next. dig www.google.com @192.168.0.1 OK, so now where does that leave us?
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