Re: cat: invalid option -- h

[J. Grant]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the reply. I think -h is almost exclusivly used for help 
normally.

I noticed that some UNIX machines output cat --help on stderr, I think 
the current approach of printing on stdout is more useful.  Is this a 
common GNU style to use stdout instead of stderr?

Regards

JG

Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Can cat -h be added as an alias of --help please?
>
>
> You can use `--h' as an abbreviation for --help.
>
> We try hard to avoid adding short-named options,
> since they may conflict with options already used in other
> implementations or in future standards.