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on April 9, 2021
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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
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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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