Timeline for Why do Unix-heads say "minus"?
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 23:41 | comment | added | Petr Skocik |
@Josh Technically, it's the hyphen/minus character so either of these two is more correct than dash .
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| Dec 10, 2010 at 19:09 | comment | added | wilhil | @Blender it's slash!!! ehh, I am mainly Windows, but I like to use pretty much every OS from time to time. This question came up in the popular list so I just thought I would answer it! | |
| Dec 10, 2010 at 16:39 | comment | added | Blender |
Wait, but why would Windows use -? Whenever I switch to Windows (and sadly, it occurs), I always get yelled at because only a handful of programs actually use - to delimit arguments. Windows uses /, which is even more fun (actually, I don't even remember. Maybe it's {forward slash}). Command Prompt--.
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| Dec 8, 2010 at 14:22 | comment | added | Josh | -1 for "hyphen". I never call it that ;-) (Actually saying hypen doesn't make sense, a hyphen is used in-between two words) | |
| Sep 18, 2010 at 22:57 | history | answered | wilhil | CC BY-SA 2.5 |