From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 16:11:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8118D1065670 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f214.google.com (mail-bw0-f214.google.com [209.85.218.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04CBB8FC18 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:11:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by bwz10 with SMTP id 10so53263bwz.43 for ; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:11:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=omSIRuyrqYY+T2dGKnf86tw2VQ1dGx3CHpg9HdzreTM=; b=pFz087vK1/FPtDyEO1Yn1oEPOLkaocIwYF3Alabo3JlBDKgtIzzoY0SE0heuVrWEnN XPUaFxH2bEFvsQvqEv5Lz7NP0l2WIU2q4sKgyeWvuqbXqoRv0c27uJuqUAQKGD809YD/ oCQ721YmrrTQXqRWCtp3ccik1xJsTqB5olH4g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jorheW6Nw36UPFq9fAjTQevw26jIbL4+zXAaBO9HqeYtFSk9AQVS19tWiQfsvquRjM ENxtzSJ5cyvZnp9jLr6abupVWGs3V2unqGH+fKq1AcePmg7xXzW3EbThkOrpxs3p0Cpd Ah8C4r94Us4Lx+1fv215A4lqjpCU9RBbFBezo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.118.207 with SMTP id w15mr4459782bkq.126.1244304679060; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:11:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> <200906051208.43135.kirk@strauser.com> <4A29EBB7.9090100@strauser.com> <20090606094648.GA10672@ei.bzerk.org> From: Chris Rees Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:10:56 +0100 Message-ID: To: Wojciech Puchar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Ruben de Groot , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:11:20 -0000 2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar : >>> what some single-letter option meant. =A0I pretty much never use them o= n >>> the command line, though. >> >> Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in >> scripts, >> tutorials, howto's etc. >> The other reason often mentioned, there being not enough letters in the >> alphabet to cover all possible options, in my opinion advocates bloated >> software (one program can do it all), which goes against the Unix paradi= gm >> of making small programs that do one task exceptionally well and just >> chaining these together. > > you exaggerate a bit. > > for example rsync does have >26 options but most make sense for program t= hat > is dedicated to one task, and it isn't against Unix paradigm. > > But it have one letter shortcuts for mostly used parameters > Can I be picky and point out it's actually 52 short options? [chris@amnesiac]~% ls -f quantumdot mail cromwell_1024.bin.gz public_html bnreg amnesiackey.pub backup.sh.gz cromwell.bin.gz check-portupgrade.pl why.c teamspeak [chris@amnesiac]~% ls -F amnesiackey.pub cromwell.bin.gz quantumdot/ backup.sh.gz cromwell_1024.bin.gz teamspeak/ bnreg/ mail/ why.c check-portupgrade.pl public_html/ [chris@amnesiac]~% for just one example.... Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?