LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections

Re:LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown o... by pash on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:57PM (#16189228)

The usual convention is a single hyphen for short-form (single-letter) options, and a double hyphen for long-form options:

    > python -v

    > python —-version

It’s good practice to offer both. It should also be possible to set multiple options at once by appending one after another in short form following a single hyphen:

    > ls -alR

is the same as

    > ls -a -l -R

Long-form options are technically a GNU thing [0] and are not mentioned in the POSIX standard, but they’re conventional enough now that I think it’s good practice to include them in any CLI program.

There are also a number of looser conventions about the meaning of certain short-form options [1].

0. https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLin...

1. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html

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Re:LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown o... by 333c on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:09PM (#16189336)

Thanks, this is what I meant in my original comment. I said "named" when I really meant "long-form," as you said.

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Re:LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown o... by JetSpiegel on Saturday January 20, 2018 @05:18AM (#16192848)

> python -v

That's verbose mode, not Version. You want a capitalized V.

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