Re: [Fwd: cat: invalid option -- h]

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   We'll all have to remember to use --help long option if -h is not going 
   to be consistent then. 

Your argument really doesn't make any sense.  -h is used for other
things than getting a usage message in GNU tools, making -h a alias
for --help in some GNU tools would only lead to utter confusion.
Right now all you have to remeber is `--help', where as with your
proposal you'll have to remeber that objcopy's -h produces a usage
message, df outputs things in a human readable format, string outputs
a usage message, tar dereferences symbolic links, etc etc etc.

Sorry, but --help is consistent, -h is not.  -? is infact more common
than -h since argp uses this as a alias for --help.