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On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:08:17 +0100, Martin Ebourne <lists@xxxxxxx.xx.xx>
wrote:
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > On 5/25/06, Martin Ebourne <lists@xxxxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> >> -? is nasty. Not only does it look ugly but it's not even a letter.
> >
> > You have to escape it from your shell? Either you have files whose
> > name is simply hyphen plus another character in the current directory,
> > or you have a hateful shell.
>
> % diff -?
> zsh: no match
> %
(tcsh)
% diff -?
diff: invalid option -- ?
diff: Try `diff --help' for more information.
Exit 2
Bach to the original hate. HERE I would agree with Sabrina.
Djeez, I'm asking for help, just give it.
> There are things to hate about zsh for sure, but I've yet to try a
> shell which has a shorter list of things to hate.
>
> ? is a pattern character as you know. And I have zsh to abort a
> command if I enter a pattern that doesn't match anything. This is a
> good thing, because if I entered a pattern I sure expect it to match,
> so if it fails I don't want the command to run because it'll probably
> only go off and do something stupid.
>
> As you say, if you have any file with a 2 character name starting with
> a hyphen then all of a sudden -? doesn't work as a help option any
> more, in any shell. That isn't hateful, it's downright vile.
>
> Options should be letters, not symbols.
Nah, we should allow unicode too.
And I stick to my opinion that -? is asking for help.
That's how I grew up in Unix land.
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