Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h]

[Andreas Schwab]

"J. Grant" <address@hidden> writes:

> My point is for consistency, it is unclear what the strategy is with -h 
> in GNU tools, perhaps only a partial idea to use -h for help in some tools.
>
> -h has ended up being used for other purposes than help in GNU tools.

If Unix had any tradition for -h being used for invoking help it wouldn't
have been used for other things in commands like pr or file or chown or
chgrp.  None of these uses are GNU inventions.

Andreas.

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