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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-12-27 09:38:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2008-12-27 10:32:58 -0700 |
| commit | 921feefb12e7f93c0925188b9b11f2e1fd775e33 (patch) | |
| tree | df920f1f5ca7b472297185cef6b29a03378b04d9 /doc | |
| parent | 0c65638b0fe521a47e72f318edfb12c5b3b850f5 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-921feefb12e7f93c0925188b9b11f2e1fd775e33.tar.xz | |
doc: mention long option abbreviation
* doc/coreutils.texi (Common options): Give example of
abbreviating options.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Adam Jimerson.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 387377345..c2713eb91 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -673,8 +673,15 @@ program description. For example, the @command{env} command's options must appear before its operands, since in some cases the operands specify a command that itself contains options. +Most programs that accept long options recognize unambiguous +abbreviations of those options. For example, @samp{rmdir +--ignore-fail-on-non-empty} can be invoked as @samp{rmdir +--ignore-fail} or even @samp{rmdir --i}. Ambiguous options, such as +@samp{ls --h}, are identified as such. + Some of these programs recognize the @option{--help} and @option{--version} -options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. +options only when one of them is the sole command line argument. For +these programs, abbreviations of the long options are not recognized. @table @samp |