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On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus <cmarcus@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could |
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> satisfy my ignorance... |
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> Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost |
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> always specified? |
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-- is the GNU getopt syntax for long options. For normal GNU programs: |
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--opt is processed as a single option ("opt") |
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-opt is processed as 6 options ('o', 'p', and 't'). |
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--sync is correct. -sync is wrong and generates an error. "sync" |
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also works, but only because portage specifically looks for it. |
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-Richard |
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