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_ZeD_ on April 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why do long options start with two dashes? (2019)

if I'm searching I'm... searching: like using grep with some keywords. Why order of the parameters should matter in this case?

josefx on April 9, 2021 [–]

Because you don't always know which words the man page uses to describe specific functionality. So many ways to express similar ideas, language is fun that way.

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