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<p>On Friday 25 August 2006 8:32 am, Christoph Doerbeck wrote:</p>
<p>> One of my favorite option "standards" right now is....</p>
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<p>> -v .... could mean verbose, or NOT</p>
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<p>> example:</p>
<p>> fuser -v .... verbose</p>
<p>> pkill -v .... NOT (grep style)</p>
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<p>> So, don't go using pkill thinking -v will give nice verbose output.</p>
<p>> Fortunately I RTFM, so there is no "story" for me to tell here...</p>
<p>You open up another can of worms that not only causes some interesting problems for us in the Linux/Unix community, but in virtually every area where different applications have different ways of doing the same task. </p>
<p>gcc -v:</p>
<p>In this case, -v is version.</p>
<p>icc -v </p>
<p>In this case, icc simply lists the short version number</p>
<p>icc -V</p>
<p>icc lists the version, build, package, and copyright.</p>
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<p>Additionally, some older apps, like tar(1) and ps(1) do not require the hyphen before command line options:</p>
<p>tar xzf foo.tar.gz</p>
<p>ps ax</p>
<p>But, the system V version of ps requires it:</p>
<p>ps -ef</p>
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