Re: [LI] comparing - and --

["Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote:

> When I came to Linux I discovered all command line options were
> using two hyphens (--) instead of single -.
> 
> For example: ls --color

A single hyphen is meant for "collated options". like in tar -xvzf.
To distinguish "-color"  from "-c -o -l -o -r", you use "--"

Long options are made longer to distinguish them from the short ones.
Welcome to Unix ;)

Gurunandan
 

 

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