Personally, I dislike gnu style double dash and actively despise the double dash equals variant( --arg=value ). I just think it adds a lot of unnecessary noise

Personally, I dislike gnu style double dash and actively despise the double dash equals variant( --arg=value ). I just think it adds a lot of unnecessary noise to the command line. And after a bit of shower thinking, you know that alone time with nothing better to do but ponder the mysteries of the universe, things like black holes, the nature of light and the ascetic of the command line. I decided that single dashes were also sort of ugly and hindered readability, but there was a better way as hinted by the single most screwball command in the standard unix installation. Yes it is I ( evil laugh ), that misanthrope actively making new cli scripts what use dd style arg=value http://nl1.outband.net/extra/remv.txt http://nl1.outband.net/extra/remv.txt Actually the real epiphany was when I was doing some work with "megacli" the tool for lsi hardware raid management. I noticed that sometimes I could forget to add a dash to an argument. A little experimentation showed that no arg actually required a dash and the capitalization was ignored. it was like a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders, much better this way. MegaCli -PdReplaceMissing -PhysDrv [1:1] -Array2 -row1 -a1 MegaCli pdreplacemissing physdrv [1:1] array2 row1 a1