command line options

Ray Davis rdavis at convex.UUCP
Thu Apr 14 07:22:49 AEST 1988


Filename expansion was in the shell a long time before getopt(1|3)
existed.  -? is intuitive to me, but using a filename generation
metacharacter as a command line option was a stupid idea in the
first place.  -help is worse.



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