verbose

ashagottipati · 06-01-2007, 05:07 AM

hi friends,

wat is verbose?

bigearsbilly · 06-01-2007, 05:12 AM

verbose adj
using or containing too many words; boringly or irritatingly long-winded. verbosely

druuna · 06-01-2007, 05:14 AM

Hi,

verbose is 'more than normal'.

A good practical example is setting up a ssh session:
ssh to.a.host versus ssh -v to.a.host.
The latter produces a lot more output which can be used for different reasons (debugging is probably the most obvious).

Hope this helps.