The former ultimately runs the command “figlet” with arguments “foobar” and “bar baz” on the local machine. The second does the same, except with ssh being involved in the middle.

Method #1: Manually split the command line arguments into smaller bunches. Example 1 [user@localhost directory]$ mv [a-l]* ../directory2 [user@localhost directory]$ mv [m-z]* ../directory2 This method ...

What do you guys think the "standard" format and parsing of command line arguments should be? (When you are writing the program that consumes the arguments) Obey your platform guidelines.