Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "The Lack Of Consistency With The Linux Terminal" video.

  1. I tend to only ever use the long options when I want the help listing or version info from apps because -h is not always for help and -v is in quite a few apps a verbose flag. For instance, with tar the -v flag denotes verbosity and with some apps it will increase the verbosity level, so you can do -vvv. For the apps I write myself, I tend to use -i for input and -o for output, but that doesn't always make sense, like with grep and sed which can take multiple files and since the shell handles wildcard expansions it makes more sense to not require -i as input because they'd either require you to quote and handle expansions themself or they'd require you to use the option a lot of times.
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  2. Yeah, there are a few apps I use that won't let you chain them, and it's quite annoying. Another one is when they use single dash for long options like ffmpeg.
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