Many Unix programs have abandoned the brevity of the Unix usage summary. When mistyping a command:
$ foo usage: foo [options] args
[options]
is nearly useless. As is this:
$ more
more: bad usage
Try 'more --help' for more information.
Here's what the util-linux
package's more
command usage summary should look like:
$ more usage: more [-cdflpsuV] [+linenum | +/regex] file [...]
If further description is needed, that's what the
man
page is for, (or something similar to the Windows
help
command, or GNU --help
).
©2015 David Egan Evans.