how to chek for the number of options in an app

[Sean McMahon]

Some commands have a -- some have a -.  Other times --option is synonomous
with -otheroption.  You have to look at each command's options to get a good
grep.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 12:08 AM
Subject: RE: how to chek for the number of options in an app


> Hi Ned,
>
> About the ls -l | wc -l thing: yeh totally man: I just forgot to mention
> grep in the first email ...
>
> And about the '-' thing: well, that's true; however, don't the '-' and '--'
> appear on the same line anyways? If they do, then why does it matter?
>
> Oh, and to answer your question:
>
> The regular expression: '-+' would check for 1 or more occurances of '-'
> consecutively
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Ned
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:03 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: how to chek for the number of options in an app
>
> Thanks Sina,
>
> In your first post you said:
> ls --help | wc -l
> Wouldn't it only count the number of lines within the help file of the ls
> command?
> The grep is a much better idea, I tried something like:
> ls --help | grep -c '-'
> and it returned 51 because it counted both '-' and '--', but don't know how
> to ... is there a logical or operator for situations like this?
> I want to check for '-' or '--'
> How to do that?
>
> Many thanks!
> Ned
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:28 PM
> Subject: RE: how to chek for the number of options in an app
>
>
> > Hi ned,
> >
> > ... To go back to what I said before, try playing with grep, so you could
> > at
> > least set up a regular expression for only the lines that have commands on
> > them ...
> >
> > Take care,
> > Sina
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> > On Behalf Of Ned
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 3:19 PM
> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> > Subject: how to chek for the number of options in an app
> >
> > Hi all,
> > Is there a way to check, without counting by hand within the manual, how
> > many options are there for a command such as ls, more, bash, etc?
> > If not, what's the shortest way of doing that through the man?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance!
> > Ned
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