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11:53 < bls> awesomess3: -R is an option, mydir is an argument
11:54 < DLange> mydir would be a pattern as that grep syntax is just badly made up
11:54 < bls> it's still an argument though
11:55 < Random832> they're all arguments
11:55 < bls> no, -R is an option

11:55 < Random832> an option is a type of argument
11:56 < mutante> look, they are having an argument about arguments.

11:56 < ayecee> a meta-argument
11:56 < mutante> yea. and optionally it could be about options

11:57 < bls> and pedantically, it's pedantic
11:57 < ayecee> bls: that's what a pedant would say