Double dash for keyword flags vs single dash for character flags

[smousa]

I noticed that in some applications, character flags are grouped by a single hyphen, while keyword flags must be prepended with a double-hyphen.

For example:
myapp -asdf

Would be the equivalent to:
myapp -a -s -d -f

However,
myapp --asdf

Refers to the keyword flag 'asdf'

Is this something that may be considered for a later version?

[dufferzafar]

Hmm, this sounds like the correct way to do it. 👍

[kytrinyx]

This is fairly standard in Unix, I think, but in Go it's very common to use a single dash for command line arguments, e.g. go test -run=MyTestName. @codegangsta Do you know if anyone has written up anything about idioms in the Go ecosystem for this sort of thing?

[codegangsta]

I know that the flags package accepts both -- and - for each given flag. I assume this is for practical reasons. Whether someone types --help or -help, the basic assumption is that the user wants see the help.

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On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:28 PM, Katrina Owen notifications@github.com wrote:

This is fairly standard in Unix, I think, but in Go it's very common to use a single dash for command line arguments, e.g. go test -run=MyTestName. @codegangsta Do you know if anyone has written up anything about idioms in the Go ecosystem for this sort of thing?

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[jszwedko]

We are at the mercy of the underlying flag parsing library on this one, but I agree that it could be something considered if we ever shifted away to our own parser.