Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

[Kirk Strauser]

Chris Rees wrote:

> Traditional:
> 
> % tar xzvf bluurgh.tgz
> 
> GNU recommended:
> 
> $ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz
> 
> Seriously, why are long options encouraged?

Scripting.  I almost always use long options when writing scripts I 
might use again later so that 6 months later I don't have to remember 
what some single-letter option meant.  I pretty much never use them on 
the command line, though.
-- 
Kirk Strauser