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Personally a fan of '--verbose' to be honest. It's clear. "grep -v" anyone?

• frenchy 6y ago
  Particularly in this case, because `-v` sometimes means "print out the version number".
  • jfrunyon 6y ago
    That's why they mentioned `grep -v`. Go look it up. It doesn't mean verbose OR version. Doubt you'd be printing out a version number in a shell script though.
    • cogburnd02 6y ago
      You may want to compare a version number of a command to make sure it's bigger than (or equal to) the minimum version required by your script, though.
    • codazoda 6y ago
      >-v, --invert-match > Selected lines are those not matching any of the specified patterns. For the lazy. Edit: I don't know hackernews formatting and I'm among the lazy, so... Marked as "won't fix".
• mattkrause 6y ago
  Of all the options, it is so fitting and proper to use the long form for —-verbose.