Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:08:23 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD Message-ID: <4A29EBB7.9090100@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0906051323s64a89fe2x134290524b633978@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906040113270.28607@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> <b79ecaef0906050950m53fda524i5652f57b1ac389ad@mail.gmail.com> <200906051208.43135.kirk@strauser.com> <b79ecaef0906051323s64a89fe2x134290524b633978@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris Rees wrote: > Traditional: > > % tar xzvf bluurgh.tgz > > GNU recommended: > > $ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz > > Seriously, why are long options encouraged? Scripting. I almost always use long options when writing scripts I might use again later so that 6 months later I don't have to remember what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on the command line, though. -- Kirk Strauser
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