Placement of command line options in bash

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Published on 2010-05-09T12:36:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 22:00 UTC
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I just starting using a Mac and have been frustrated that command line options are required immediately following the command so that this works:

ls -la /usr

but this doesn't:

ls /usr -la

ls: -la: No such file or directory

Is there any way to change this? Or can someone tell me why the placement of options is agnostic on most Linux platforms, but not on Mac?

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Placement of command line options in bash

Posted by Nathan Rambeck on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Nathan Rambeck
Published on 2010-05-09T12:36:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 12:38 UTC
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I just starting using a Mac and have been frustrated that command line options are required immediately following the command so that this works:

ls -la /usr

but this doesn't:

ls /usr -la ls: -la: No such file or directory

Is there any way to change this? Or can someone tell me why the placement of options is agnostic on most Linux platforms, but not on Mac?

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