#34 Emulating GNU-Style Flags with Quota
The inconsistency between the command flags of various Unix systems is a perpetual problem and causes lots of grief for users who switch between any of the major releases, particularly between a commercial Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, and so on) and an open source Linux system. One command that demonstrates this problem is quota, which supports full-word flags on some Unix systems, while on others it accepts only one-letter flags.
A succinct shell script solves the problem, however, by mapping any full-word flags specified into the equivalent single-letter alternatives:
#!/bin/sh # newquota - A front end to quota that works with full-word flags a la GNU. # quota has three possible flags, -g, -v, and -q, but ...
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