http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/05/12/tis-a-gift-to-be-simple/ Stay curious! Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/05/12/tis-a-gift-to-be-simple/#comment-18307 bundacia Wed, 12 May 2010 14:17:45 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1842#comment-18307 I like these type of shortcut options for command line utilities, but only for use interactively. A agree that if you’re scripting something you always want to use the full option name to avoid the problem you bring up here. But I still like being able to type less when I’m running a command by hand. And in that case, getting a “that’s ambiguous” error message isn’t a big deal. I can just up-arrow and fix it.

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