Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:48:02 +0200 From: Johan Karlsson <johan@freebsd.org> To: standards@freebsd.org Subject: repeated options to mean different thing Message-ID: <20020723194802.C50574@numeri.campus.luth.se>
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Hi In PR 40709 I suggested to use to use -v to mean be verbose (current behaivour) and repeated -v (e.g chmod -v -v 777 file, or chmod -vv 777 file) to mean be very verbose. tcpdump uses a variant of this where -v mean be verbose and -vv mean be even more verbose. Sheldon told me to ask here if this goes against POSIX or some other standard. So, is the use of repeated options prohibited by POSIX? Or is this a stupid idea from some other standards point of view? Take care /Johan -- Johan Karlsson mailto:johan@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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