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I laugh at verbose options that are:

-v for basic verbose

-vv for more

-vvv for even more

-vvvv oh come on you've got to be kidding

-vvvvv nope, they're not kidding

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I absolutely hate this convention. Not only is there often very little documentation about what exactly gets added in for each verbosity level, making me guess randomly and then maybe binary search to find what I need with minimal noise, its basically impossible for me to differentiate repeated characters beyond 4 without using a cursor to step though them. I don't have any opposition to fine-grained log levels, but geez, just make it `-v [VERBOSITY (default 1)]` or something sane like that.

  -vv ⇒ -w
  -vvvv ⇒ -ww

Just a joke :)

And yet… now I am deeply wishing for this. :-)

-w should be equivalent to -uu surely!

Not in France ;)

Well usually you can use -vvvv -> -vv -vv so if you make your font size small enough that vv looks like a w..

I keep hoping someone will do this with -v², -v³, and so on.

Where the base value is two and -v³ is a shortcut for -vvvvvvvv? Because it wouldn't work with a base of one (1³=1).

Just assessing expectations because I do like the idea and would implement it (in addition to the expected way) next time it comes up

In my mind, -v³ would be the same as -vvv, and -v⁴ for -vvvv, and on and on.

I suppose you could really take it to some absurd level with -v¹⁰ for -vvvvvvvvvv

The v is log scale, which does make some sense in terms of output volume. ;)

Ah, but you'd have to error on any even power, since of course a negative squared is positive, thus -v^2 would be v^2 and without the dash you can't be sure it's a switch.

There's an easy solution to this: just use i for even exponents.

So (-iv)² = -vv and once you've escaped the brackets in bash all is good.

I think we're on to something here....

Nah exponents have higher precedence than signs, it gets annoying otherwise.

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