Options are formatted as follows:
- For most options, the option and the parameters are separated by a space as in -xxx param.
When the option's name is
-xxx+, however, the parameter must directly follow the option, without the
+ character (as in
-xxx45) and with no space separator.
- An option given as
-[no]xxx may be issued as
-xxx or
-noxxx.
The use of
-noxxx reverses the meaning of the option.
- When an option is specified as -xxx | yy[y] | zzz, then either -xxx,-yy, -yyy, or -zzz matches the option.
- The symbols comma (
,) and equals (
=) separates the options and the parameters unconditionally; to include one of these symbols in a parameter or filename, escape it (e.g., as
\, in
mwcc file.c\,v).