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> What about -v? Is it a version or verbose flag? What is -V? > What about -h? That one's okay.
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I hate shorthand CLI flags: $ tar xvf $ ls -la $ rm -rf All of them. I hate it.
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Inevitably you reach a naming conflict and can't use the first letter of the "long" argument name. Then there's capitalization ambiguity, the shorthand being the second letter of the argument etc. How does anyone remember?
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People made those, how do you think that makes them feel?
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How would you prefer my tweet be worded? “I dislike shorthand CLI flags”?
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ls -la instead of -al? You monster.
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They went the complete opposite with powershell.
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