Craig Dunigan wrote: > Thanks David, but initially I couldn't even get far enough to make > pk12util complain about nicknames. It simply wouldn't do anything but > return the usage message, which I assume means, like in other *nix > commands, that I have the syntax wrong.
Yup. > On the chance that pk12util does not follow POSIX standard and is > sensitive to the order of command line options, I tried re-ordering > the options exactly following the usage message. That seems to work, > or, at least, pk12util complained about the nickname. Hmmm. I tried pk12util commands with the options in the reverse of the order shown in the usage, and they all worked. So I don't think order was the issue. Some common things that cause command line parsing errors include: a) not putting the space between the option letter and the option argument, e.g. "-dcertdir" instead of "-d certdir" b) leaving out an option argument, e.g. "-d -P prefix" instead of "-d dir -P prefix". c) thinking that all the option arguments can come after all the options, e.g. expecting "-d -P dir prefix" or tar-style "-dP dir Prefix" to be equivalent to "-d dir -P prefix". Single letter options can be combined (run together) provided that none of them, or only the last one of them, takes an option argument. e.g. "-vd dir" is equivalent to "-v -d dir". > I'm posting this in the hopes that someone else experiencing this will > search on "usage message" or "command syntax" in the maillist archive > before posting, like I did, and see the reason for the repeated usage > message. I'm also hoping the developers might read it and consider > implementing the POSIX standard for command line options, or at least > including a note in the usage message that states that order of > options matters. If it does. I think it doesn't. All these commands work properly. These are actual commands I just did, and they all reported: "pk12util: PKCS12 IMPORT SUCCESSFUL" pk12util -i $IMPORTFILE -d $HOME -P prefix -K test -W nss -v pk12util -v -W nss -K test -P prefix -d $HOME -i $IMPORTFILE These commands all work too: pk12util -l $LISTFILE -d $HOME -P prefix -W nss pk12util -W nss -P prefix -d $HOME -l $LISTFILE pk12util -v -l $LISTFILE -d $HOME -P prefix -W nss pk12util -vl $LISTFILE -d $HOME -P prefix -W nss /Nelson _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
