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 "
," and "
=" separate options and parameters unconditionally; to include one of these symbols in a parameter or filename, escape it (e.g., as "
\," in
mwcc file.c\,v).