From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Command line options and complexity
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:56:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfr_-wzSYXUQ-fZAPTGgYTC7SWkH6Vkd8+BM_z83hAA7eA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2003060845010.64345@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:51 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Ken Thompson via TUHS wrote:
>
> > do i get a prize:
> > ls -tj
> > /bin/ls: illegal option -- j
> > usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]
>
> Another candidate for option-cleansing... Interesting; I get different
> options with the Mac and FreeBSD:
>
> Mac:
>
> usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]
>
> FreeBSD:
>
> usage: ls [-ABCFGHILPRSTUWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwxy1,] [-D format]
> [file ...]
>
> So FreeBSD has added up "y,D:" (in getopt(3)-speak); my eyes are burning...
>
FreeBSD wouldn't need -, if there were a good filter to add , to large
numbers... Some of the proliferation of options has been due to a lack of
proper building-blocks....
Warner
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-04 14:06 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-03-04 16:17 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-04 17:25 ` Bakul Shah
2020-03-05 0:55 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-05 2:05 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-03-05 4:17 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-03-05 14:53 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-05 21:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05 21:56 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2020-03-08 5:26 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-08 5:32 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-08 9:30 ` Tyler Adams
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[not found] ` <CAEuQd1D7+dfap98AwPo2W41+06prrcVaAWk3Ve-ve0uQ0xBu3Q@mail.gmail.com>
2020-03-09 21:06 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-09 21:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2020-03-11 17:41 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-11 21:29 ` Warner Losh
2020-03-12 0:13 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-12 0:34 ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-12 12:57 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-12 19:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-08 9:51 ` Michael Kjörling
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2020-03-13 10:45 Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14 4:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-14 19:52 ` John P. Linderman
2020-03-14 20:25 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-10 18:42 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-10 19:38 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-10 16:15 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-10 17:38 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-10 17:44 ` Bakul Shah
2020-03-10 18:09 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-05 4:57 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-05 22:17 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2020-03-03 18:15 Jon Steinhart
2020-03-03 18:44 ` Adam Thornton
2020-03-04 4:11 ` Tyler Adams
2020-03-04 6:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-04 6:48 ` arnold
2020-03-04 21:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05 0:49 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2020-03-05 20:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-05 22:01 ` William Cheswick
2020-03-04 21:50 ` Random832
2020-03-04 23:19 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-05 6:12 ` Alan D. Salewski
2020-03-04 22:03 ` Random832
2020-03-04 23:25 ` Terry Jones
2020-03-10 23:03 ` Dan Stromberg
2020-03-11 3:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-11 4:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-11 22:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-11 23:14 ` Dan Cross
2020-03-12 0:42 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12 0:53 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-12 3:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12 3:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-13 1:02 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12 5:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-12 6:48 ` Peter Jeremy
2020-03-12 7:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-12 7:42 ` Warner Losh
2020-03-12 23:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-12 5:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-12 5:35 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-13 0:36 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-03-13 11:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14 2:13 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-03-14 4:31 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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