Hi all,
I admit this is a newbie question, and first of all allow me to say I love FreeBSD and I'm comfortable with it as it is. However when I show FreeBSD to my Linux colleagues I often am asked about why the need for such basic userland commands that do not accept the flexible syntax as GNU/Linux commands do. I mean, in several GNU/Linux commands you can specify options almost in every position of the command line, while in similar commands in FreeBSD you cannot. I suspect this is due to the adoption of the gnuopts library, but I'd like to know if there is a rationale behind this choice in order to be able to convince more Linux users!
Thanks
I admit this is a newbie question, and first of all allow me to say I love FreeBSD and I'm comfortable with it as it is. However when I show FreeBSD to my Linux colleagues I often am asked about why the need for such basic userland commands that do not accept the flexible syntax as GNU/Linux commands do. I mean, in several GNU/Linux commands you can specify options almost in every position of the command line, while in similar commands in FreeBSD you cannot. I suspect this is due to the adoption of the gnuopts library, but I'd like to know if there is a rationale behind this choice in order to be able to convince more Linux users!
Thanks