[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-3992) Improve formatting of command line help
Paul Gier (JIRA)
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Tue Aug 28 10:01:15 EDT 2012
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Paul Gier commented on AS7-3992:
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I don't really have a preference regarding the legacy parameters. IMO, they should be marked in the help as deprecated, but I'm not sure there's a good way to do this in a single line.
> Improve formatting of command line help
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Key: AS7-3992
> URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3992
> Project: Application Server 7
> Issue Type: Enhancement
> Components: CLI
> Affects Versions: 7.1.0.Final
> Reporter: Paul Gier
> Assignee: Joe Wertz
>
> For command line parameters where there is both a short or a long version of the same option, the short and long version should be comma separated. This is similar to how many command line tools display help or in man pages.
> Current output:
> {noformat}
> -h Display this message and exit
> --help Display this message and exit
> {noformat}
> Suggested output:
> {noformat}
> -h, --help Display this message and exit
> {noformat}
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