Commands with options: (was: war story: parallel(1) command)

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org

| ls -colour definitely works on this machine:
| 
| cat /etc/issue
| Welcome to openSUSE 10.3 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l).
| cat /proc/version
| Linux version 2.6.22.19-0.4-default (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version 4.2.1
| (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP 2009-08-14 02:09:16 +0200

Wow.  With the single ninus sign, it means a bunch of individual
single-character flags, not one multi-letter flag .  Unless someone has
gone nuts.
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