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Description of problem:
One of the complaints about firewalld is the long winded and verbose syntax on the cli. Every option is long, prefixed with --, and hard to remember.

There are other commands, such as nmcli that do not have this issue, and like certain networking vendors products, allows short forms of commands.

An example of firewalld with this would be:

firewalld-cmd z int sad tftp p

This would be equivalent to

firewalld-cmd --zone=internal --service-add=tftp --permanent

This will help lower the barrier to entry to sys admins who appreciate terse compact cli notation for tasks. Improving the efficiency of what an admin will do will increase acceptance and adoption of firewalld.

(In reply to wibrown from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> One of the complaints about firewalld is the long winded and verbose syntax
> on the cli. Every option is long, prefixed with --, and hard to remember.

I would argue that short options are harder to remember than long options. Eventually you have collisions and end up with short options like grep's "-v" for invert.

> There are other commands, such as nmcli that do not have this issue, and
> like certain networking vendors products, allows short forms of commands.
> 
> An example of firewalld with this would be:
> 
> firewalld-cmd z int sad tftp p
> 
> This would be equivalent to
> 
> firewalld-cmd --zone=internal --service-add=tftp --permanent
> 
> This will help lower the barrier to entry to sys admins who appreciate terse
> compact cli notation for tasks. Improving the efficiency of what an admin
> will do will increase acceptance and adoption of firewalld.

It's also error prone. Fat finger mistakes are pretty unforgiving for a firewall.

If you find a compelling reason firewalld should support short options, please re-open this bug.