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I don't think I've had this happen yet, but I have wondered about it happening.
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devs30816y@NeedsMoreDivs if a program does not take any arguments, it might just execute, rather than failing and saying it doesn’t recognise the argument
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Parzi88456yI try "-?" first due to DOS usage. I do this even in linux.
nuker --target=user --method=/dev/chair_taser -
devios157776yShouldn’t the command you want to look up come after —help?
Oh you mean the whole program. Got it. -
Or a Cisco 800 series router, where the ? Operator makes it show the help for whatever you typed up to that point without pressing enter
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Parzi88456y@Pogromist in windows or dos, \ is for directories, / and - are for switches (and they're both usually interchangeable)
Standards, why follow them?
joke/meme
--help
standards why follow them?