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I disagree, the shell is in the best situation to do something about it. Or at least it would be, if there was a consistent way for programs to report to the sh

by zxzax 5y ago

I disagree, the shell is in the best situation to do something about it. Or at least it would be, if there was a consistent way for programs to report to the shell how their argument parsing works.

enriquto 5y ago
that would be horrific
- zxzax 5y ago
  More horrific than having to guess what switches are supported by any given command on the target machine, even though shell scripts are supposed to be cross platform?