[CLI-160] Partial matching for long options

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.3
• Component/s: Parser
• Assignee: Emmanuel Bourg
• Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
• Created: 25/Jul/08 09:19
• Updated: 09/May/15 18:43
• Resolved: 30/May/09 13:57

Description

Partial matching is a common feature among command line processing tools. It allows to use shorter option names as long as the abbreviation is not ambiguous.

For example on Debian

ls --he

is equivalent to

ls --help

but

ls --h

returns the error "option `--h' is ambiguous", because 'h' is also the prefix of the --hide option.