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On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 18:11:59 +0200
Polytropon wrote:

> This is a BSD program - no GNU long-style options in the first place
> as you'd assume on Linux. :-)

FWIW FreeBSD's libc has supported long-options for a long time, but it's
up to each individual program to define them. Plenty of BSD utilities
do, pkg for instance.