[HN Gopher] Why Do Long Options Start with Two Dashes?
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       Why Do Long Options Start with Two Dashes?
        
       Author : spyh
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-04-08 22:17 UTC (42 minutes ago)
        
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       | devenblake wrote:
       | Why did POSIX disallow +options?
        
       | cecilpl2 wrote:
       | I was surprised to read that long options were invented so
       | recently, in only 1990.
        
       | asimjalis wrote:
       | It looks like date allows the + option. For example,
       | date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'
        
       | c2xlZXB5Cg wrote:
       | that explains dig?
        
       | dataflow wrote:
       | Kind of off-topic, but somehow I've always found that blogs that
       | use that particular template (with the blue top header and all)
       | pretty much always have content that I find interesting or
       | useful. Often they contain niche information that's hard to come
       | by elsewhere. Has anybody felt similarly/know what might cause
       | this?
        
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