Re: OT Required Options?
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- Subject: Re: OT Required Options?
- From: Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:23:44 -0400
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- In-reply-to: <48RBg-8s2-21@gated-at.bofh.it> (Martin Dickopp's message of "Fri, 27 May 2005 20:20:10 +0200")
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Martin Dickopp <martin@zero-based.org> writes:
> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:
>> Martin writes:
>>> Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which
>>> can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is
>>> provided to them.
>>
>> That's true of Unix and Linux as well.
>
> Can you cite a Unix or GNU/Linux command line program which has this
> property? I cannot think of even one, but maybe that's just my lack of
> imagination. :)
You mean like e.g. rmdir and rm:
Linux/Debian:
$ rmdir
rmdir: too few arguments
Try `rmdir --help' for more information.
$ rm
rm: too few arguments
Try `rm --help' for more information.
UNIX/Solaris 10:
% rmdir
Usage: rmdir [-ps] dirname ...
% rm
usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
Dragan
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