Re: FYI: wc accepts a new option --files0-from=FILE, ...

[Bob Proulx]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> The description of wc's --files0-from is nearly identical
> to that of du.  I've added an example:
> ...
> address@hidden
> +find . -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | ./wc -L --files=- | tail -n1
> address@hidden example

Here you are using the substring abbreviation --files for
--files0-from.  Which is fine.  But what if someday the --files-from
option is added?  My preference would be to make the example be unique
in that case too and to use at least --files0=- there.

Actually when I read the example I expected to see it be using a
non-null terminated files from option.  I had to go look at the code
to verify that it did no exist to know for sure that it was using the
substring abbreviation for the --files0 flavor.

Bob