Dragan Cvetkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Martin writes:
>>>> Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which
>>>> can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is
>>>> provided to them.
>>>
>>> That's true of Unix and Linux as well.
>>
>> Can you cite a Unix or GNU/Linux command line program which has this
>> property? I cannot think of even one, but maybe that's just my lack of
>> imagination. :)
>
> You mean like e.g. rmdir and rm:
>
> Linux/Debian:
>
> $ rmdir
> rmdir: too few arguments
> Try `rmdir --help' for more information.
> $ rm 
> rm: too few arguments
> Try `rm --help' for more information.

No, I don't mean these. They work perfectly fine with only non-option
arguments.

Martin


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