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Not what you asked, but anything that uses a single hyphen for longopts can just fuck off. I'm talking to you Terraform.
I blame Sun/Java for popularizing this. I give find a pass due to its age.
Did not want to respond but this is hilarious.
To be fair, really old CLI's, like from the time when X.org was the new stuff, this style used to be more common. That was before "GNU style" (using single dash for single-letter bundle-able options and double dash for long options) became prevalent.
But yeah, if you see
-foothen you know the program is old enough that regular colonoscopy is recommended, and the original author is probably retired or "passed away at the ripe age of ..".I hate that too.
7zdoes that and its horrible.So does Fossil. I love the program, but that irks me to no end.
You think that's bad. You should try Ghostty and it's +foo options.