Use Long Options in Scripts

Re:Use Long Options in Scripts by croes on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:13PM (#43443044)

> Long form options are much more self-explanatory for the reader.

And less prone to typos

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Re:Use Long Options in Scripts by dosourcenotcode on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:18PM (#43443085)

And not just options but base command names too. I wrote a tool to partially mitigate this in some cases: https://github.com/makesourcenotcode/name-safe-in-bash

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Re:Use Long Options in Scripts by sebastianmestre on Saturday March 22, 2025 @06:09AM (#43444679)

You have a nice ternary counter going in the version numbers :)

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