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> There’s nothing complicated, oblique, or arcane, about short options - if one is versed in Unix. Need to list a directory reversively? ls -R Need to list

> There’s nothing complicated, oblique, or arcane, about short options - if one is versed in Unix. Need to list a directory reversively? ls -R Need to list a directory in reverse? ls -r Need to sort a list in reverse? sort -r Need to grep recursively? grep -r Need to copy recursively? cp -R cp -r # obsolete! Definitely not confusing!

ramses0 5y ago
Thank you, I was trying not to feed the trolls. ;-) http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/the-unix-way-command-line-arguments-options.html http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/the-unix-way-comm... ...I link to some good references that I found w.r.t. command line options which was a useful baseline even for looking at what options your command may try to support.
- cyberdelica 5y ago
  > Thank you, I was trying not to feed the trolls. ;-) Who’s the troll? Your comment is probably out of line with site guidelines mate. Please report yourself to the admins, for attitude realignment.
cyberdelica 5y ago
> Definitely not confusing! Heh, well... I never said it wasn’t confusing. I agree with you on the above. If the Unix Philosophy was being properly followed, with your ls example, as a case in point, I would use: ls | tac | column Now, that’s not even considering the ridiculousness of the naming of the “tac” command, which would ideally be renamed “rev” - with rev ideally being expanded, to to ALL reversals, not just character based, per line. The sort of nonsense above, is why I started writing my own core utils and OS from scratch - which I suppose is a sort of suckless meme, by now. POSIX, is both a blessing, and a curse.