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Richard Fish wrote: |
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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. |
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Ahem... not for me it didn't... thats why I asked - wondered if I may |
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have hosed anything (can't imagine that such a minor, easy-to-make typo |
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would caus ebad things to happen, though). |
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Thanks for the detailed explanation, though... now I at least know the |
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differences. |
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Now, why did it not generate an error for me, I wonder? |
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