Negating options

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Mon Feb 6 15:23:06 GMT 2006


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Matthieu Moy wrote:
> John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I really think that all boolean options should allow negation. Simply
>>because then users can change what they want the *default* behavior to
>>be, and still override them with command line arguments.
> 
> 
> ... which is essential to make predictible shell scripts, BTW.

To make predictable shell scripts, just prepend --no-defaults to all
commands.

Aaron
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