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daxelrod on Oct 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hints for writing Unix tools

One sort-of attempt at this is GNU's Coding Standards.

Long and Short Options: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Option-Table.ht...

General Interfaces: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/User-Interfaces...

Command Line Interfaces: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Command_002dLin...

Program Argument Syntax: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argument-S...

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