Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

[Tim Judd]

On 6/6/09, Chris Rees <utisoft at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>:
>>>> what some single-letter option meant.  I pretty much never use them on
>>>> the command line, though.
>>>
>>> Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in
>>> scripts,
>>> tutorials, howto's etc.
>>> The other reason often mentioned, there being not enough letters in the
>>> alphabet to cover all possible options, in my opinion advocates bloated
>>> software (one program can do it all), which goes against the Unix
>>> paradigm
>>> of making small programs that do one task exceptionally well and just
>>> chaining these together.
>>
>> you exaggerate a bit.
>>
>> for example rsync does have >26 options but most make sense for program
>> that
>> is dedicated to one task, and it isn't against Unix paradigm.
>>
>> But it have one letter shortcuts for mostly used parameters
>>
>
> Can I be picky and point out it's actually 52 short options?
>
> [chris at amnesiac]~% ls -f
> quantumdot              mail                    cromwell_1024.bin.gz
> public_html             bnreg                   amnesiackey.pub
> backup.sh.gz            cromwell.bin.gz         check-portupgrade.pl
> why.c                   teamspeak
> [chris at amnesiac]~% ls -F
> amnesiackey.pub         cromwell.bin.gz         quantumdot/
> backup.sh.gz            cromwell_1024.bin.gz    teamspeak/
> bnreg/                  mail/                   why.c
> check-portupgrade.pl    public_html/
> [chris at amnesiac]~%
>
> for just one example....
>
> Chris


and digits add another 10.

We're up to 62 single-character options.  I'm sure punctuation will be next.

dig www.google.com @192.168.0.1


OK, so now where does that leave us?