Questions tagged [conventions]

Naming conventions and best practice

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Why do Unix-heads say "minus"?

A couple of weeks ago I attended a talk on Git by someone who seemed to be from a Windows background. I say "seemed to be" because he kept saying "dash" when referring to command-line options. I then recalled something that I found curious in my…
Eric Smith
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Is it good practice to add the manpage section number to POSIX tools when referring to them?

I sometimes see people referring to tools, like ls append the manpage section number in parens, like the manpages themselves do (in ls's case ls(1)) in prose/text like answers and comments here on stackexchange. Is that good practice? Are there any…
Andreas
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Is there a character convention for representing stderr?

By convention, stdout is -. Is there something similar for stderr?
midrare
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