> a ton of work to figure out and implement Not really? while ((opt = getopt(...)) >= 0) switch (opt) { ... case 'v': if (!action) { action = VERI

> a ton of work to figure out and implement Not really? while ((opt = getopt(...)) >= 0) switch (opt) { ... case 'v': if (!action) { action = VERIFY; break; } verbose++; break; ... } (A followup post clarifies that a -v before a different action flag does not retroactively turn into “verbose”; in any case that’s also not hard to do. To be clear, both possibilities suck, I just disagree they’re difficult to implement.)