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Re^3: Why is it good practice for a cli script to take switch args before file list?

by swampyankee (Parson)
on Jul 20, 2006 at 03:06 UTC ( [id://562495]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Why is it good practice for a cli script to take switch args before file list?
in thread Why is it good practice for a cli script to take switch args before file list?

I thought they got the idea for forward slashes for command switches from VMS. Whether they got the idea from VMS or IBM, backslashes for directory separators was a really bad idea: they're not in a standard place on a keyboard.

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