These links are not loading for me but hopefully it's just some network hiccups on my end: The Art of Unix Programming: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup

These links are not loading for me but hopefully it's just some network hiccups on my end: The Art of Unix Programming: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ GNU Coding Standards: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html Standard list of long options: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Option-Table http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Option-Tabl... Short options from -a to -z: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html ...so this is the "serious" version of what you're describing.