GNU bug report logs - #13737
Add -h option to 'users'

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Message #48 received at 13737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 13737 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, anatoly techtonik <techtonik <at> gmail.com>,
	Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#13737: Add -h option to 'users'
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:17:51 -0700

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On 02/18/2013 11:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:

> 
> Thanks for replying, Eric and Bob.
> One more point: a long time ago, I too thought about adding -h
> as an alias for --help for these 100-or-so programs, but even then,
> there were numerous commands for which -h was already accepted,
> but with a different meaning.

We COULD add -? as an alias for --help across the board; except that I'm
not a fan of using shell metacharacters which require quoting to avoid
unintentional globbing matches (nothing worse than having behavior
change based on the contents of the current working directory).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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