Long Option for Scripts, Short Options for Interactive Use
FleetingI think it helps a lot readability to make the options explicit.
Like all rules, it is meant to be thought about and not blindly followed. To me, it is a means to the more generic goal of game of communication.
For instance, I have some exceptions, like rm -rf
or ls -la
.
Also, there are some other tools for which I wonder if the pattern is known
enough to use short options, like curl --fail --silent --show-error --location
vs curl -fsSL