cli parameters

Alan Jackson ajackson
Mon May 17 11:57:38 PDT 2004


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:32:31 -0800
Ian Stephen <ianstepn at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Question for the programmers out there.
> 
> Is there a standard for command-line parameters passed to Linux
> programs?
> 

Standards? We don't need no steenking standards!

I've never seen any. The Gnu folks might have some, but you'd have
to read an info file to see it. (sigh)

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