Re: cat: invalid option -- h
"J. Grant" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:19:20 +0000
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Hi Jim, Thanks for the reply. I think -h is almost exclusivly used for help normally. I noticed that some UNIX machines output cat --help on stderr, I think the current approach of printing on stdout is more useful. Is this a common GNU style to use stdout instead of stderr? Regards JG Jim Meyering wrote: >>Can cat -h be added as an alias of --help please? > > > You can use `--h' as an abbreviation for --help. > > We try hard to avoid adding short-named options, > since they may conflict with options already used in other > implementations or in future standards. >