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one hyphen vs two hyphens command line

In unix-like systems,
One hypen (-) specifies short form of command line options.
Two hyphen characters (--) are used on some programs to specify 
"long options"  where more descriptive option names are used.

i.e.
program --version
program -v
Posted by: Guest on May-26-2021

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