[TriLUG] Silly Survey about a dash or a minus in a command line option

[William Sutton]

As a side note... maybe it's general UNIX culture to refer to it as a dash 
when used as a command option?  I don't even remember when/how I learned 
to call it a dash, but I wouldn't call it a minus in a shell context 
(unless I was doing arithemetic) any more than I would call "/"[1] "divide 
by" in a path.

William Sutton

[1] Major Pet Peeve:  anyone who calls "/" "backslash", especially radio 
and tv announcers narrating a web site address.  "/" is "slash" and "\" is 
"backslash" and anyone who confuses the two should get the OJ Simpson 
treatment:  //\\<esc><esc>

On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, William Sutton wrote:

> And that says all you need to know.  If it's Microsoft, it's bound to be 
> wrong :-P
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, David Burton wrote:
>
>> Microsoft Narrator pronounces it "hyphen."
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