again, dear listener, why long options are really really useful. If that had been dash dash transport dash path or dash dash path or something like that, I would never have mistaken it for a password prompt while describing what the command did. I would also have not, momentarily in the man page, I wouldn't have mistaken the lowercase p for a capital P, because it would have been dash dash rdistd dash path and dash dash transport dash path. And it would have been really obvious. Long options are super super important. I highly encourage writing them into your scripts and your applications and using them more often than not. It helps you later, and it helps other people reading your code or your instructions. Okay, anyway, rdist dash capital P for transport path slash user bin ssh dash lowercase f as in file, which does indeed point to a file rdist.hosts in my case. And if I run that from the directory containing rdist.hosts, I mean, I might want to give it a full path in real life, (7/53)
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