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Re: Two-letter options?

From: Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:31:24 -0700

On Mar 11, 2022, at 02:38:20, Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
> We have basically run out of single-letter options (practically speaking only -W, -5, -7, -8, -9 are left usused), making all new options forced to be long versions only. Like the newly introduced --remove-on-error [1].
>
pax and, notably, ssh have met this problem with the "-o" meta-option.
Alas, curl has already dedicated "-o".

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Received on 2022-03-11