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Article #73184Re: Poll: syntax of long options
From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 13:45
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 13:45
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In article <ABRAHAM.91Oct29173322@freja.iesd.auc.dk>, abraham@iesd (Per Abrahamsen) writes: >If you write a shell script for a POSIX system, you can expect > > ls -l +something > >to write the long listing for the file called `+something'. However, >on a GNU system the command would print a usage message. Thus, GNU ls >is not POSIX compliant. It is, when you first set the environment variable POSIX_ME_HARDER. Long options won't work then and the system is POSIX compliant in other respects, also. //Jyrki
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,5071a1d1ccc07109 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-30 08:09:58 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!zeus.ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!fuug!nntp.hut.fi!usenet From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Poll: syntax of long options Message-ID: <1991Oct30.134543.3887@nntp.hut.fi> Date: 30 Oct 91 13:45:43 GMT References: <CARLTON.91Oct24105806@husc8.harvard.edu> <1991Oct28.201626.25254@uunet.uu.net> <ABRAHAM.91Oct29115204@freja.iesd.auc.dk> <1991Oct29.142256.5232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <ABRAHAM.91Oct29173322@freja.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) Nntp-Posting-Host: sauna.cs.hut.fi