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

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

> | 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.
> --

Interestingly, the manual entry for ls says this:

    --color[=WHEN]
              control whether color is used to distinguish file types. 
WHEN may be `never', `always', or `auto'

No mention of -colour.

P.


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