alt Hacker NewsFor a small flight of fancy, imagine if each program had a --for-docs argument, which causes it to simply spit out the canonical long-form version equivalent to whatever else it has been called with.
For a small flight of fancy, imagine if each program had a --for-docs argument, which causes it to simply spit out the canonical long-form version equivalent to whatever else it has been called with.
Or, a separate program that can convert from short to long form:
> for-docs "ls -lrth /mnt/data"
ls -l --reverse -t --human-readable -- /mnt/data
(I'd put in an option to put the options alphabetically too)