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conaclos on May 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unix command line conventions over time

And others use option -long such as ffmpeg.

brabel on May 7, 2022 [–]

And Java with the infamous `-version` (only after JDK11 I think it started recognizing also `--version`) and `-cp` meaning `--classpath`, not `-c -p`!

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