[TriLUG] Silly Survey about a dash or a minus in a command line option

[David Both]

Spoken like a true sysadmin and therefore it is the correct answer. ;-)


On 02/10/2013 06:47 PM, John Vaughters wrote:
> Hahahahaha, agreed, but he is not a sys admin, he is an older Engineer and he sincerely wanted to know what Sys Admins call it. He was using minus, and I agree, that Minus gives a subtraction perception amd in my experience people that use minus tend to be people not used to communicating with Sys Admins, which is why I specifically asked this group.
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> So far the dashes are winning.
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> My logic for using dash is that it is just shorter to pronounce and makes communication quicker.
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> ________________________________
> From: John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Silly Survey about a dash or a minus in a command line option
>
>    1) Remember, the instructor is Always Correct.    :)

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