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That's what I do on the command line (though I went so far as to just alias `grep` to `grep -E`), but when writing scripts I prefer to use expanded flags for cl
by acabal 6y ago
That's what I do on the command line (though I went so far as to just alias `grep` to `grep -E`), but when writing scripts I prefer to use expanded flags for clarity. When going back to a script one wrote a year ago, it's way easier to grok expanded flags instead of a bunch of single letters that have to be re-deciphered. (Especially with something like `grep` or `sed` that have 1,000 flags each.)
- gnubison 6y ago> Especially with something like `grep` or `sed` that have 1,000 flags each. Sometimes I actually read the POSIX man pages instead of the standard ones — they are sometimes more useful because they have fewer features. Sometimes they are less useful because of their verbose language, though.
- boogies 6y ago> more useful because they have fewer features That’s probably why DuckDuckGo’s `!man man`/manpage.me default to FreeBSD manpages. But if you really want something non-verbose you may prefer tldr.sh, cht.sh, or bro pages.