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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ the bug-report mailing list (as seen on last line of e.g., cp --help). A Costa agcosta@gis.net Aaron Hawley ashawley@uvm.edu Achim Blumensath blume@corona.oche.de +Adam Jimerson vendion@charter.net Adam Klein aklein@debian.org Adrian Bunk bunk@stusta.de AIDA Shinra shinra@j10n.org 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 |