Re: Long help option

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Adam Tuja wrote:
there is a thing with the help (-h) that makes it increasingly harder
to use - it's its length.
[...]
This way basic help would look like this:

You may achieve almost the same effect with

  lzip -h | head -n 38
or
  lzip -h | head -n 42

without forcing novice users to search for the long help option to get the 
information they need.


Regards,
Antonio.