Re: Options -e/-i versus -E/-I

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Otto Wyss wrote:

> My script uses the options
>
>  -E|-exclude=keyword    keyword is a comma separated string
>  -I|-include=keyword
> and
>  -e|-exclude-from=file  file contains the strings (one per line)
>  -i|-include-from=file
>
> Is this okay or should I use the lowercase on the keyword options
> (uppercase on file options)? Does anyone know other programs which uses
> the same options?

"info standards" tells the following (only for GNU programs and perhaps
incomplete):

`exclude-from'
     `-X' in `tar'.

`include'
     `-i' in `etags'; `-I' in `m4'.

`include-dir'
     `-I' in Make.


> O. Wyss

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Adrian