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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by EE84M3i on Saturday September 19, 2020 @02:22AM (#24525584)
Wow, that's funny, I normally expect '-v' to be verbose, but maybe I just use a lot of `tar` and `curl`!
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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by mjochim on Saturday September 19, 2020 @07:48AM (#24526786)
Or maybe cp, or rm, or rsync, or mount, or wget, or netcat (both gnu and bsd) ... it’s really pretty reasonable to expect -v to mean verbose ;-).
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