Ellipses ( "..." ) are used to denote that one or more occurrences of
an operand are allowed. When an option or an operand followed by
ellipses is enclosed in brackets, zero or more options or operands can
be specified. The form:
utility_name [-g option_argument]...[operand...]
indicates that multiple occurrences of the option and its
option-argument preceding the ellipses are valid, with semantics as
indicated in the OPTIONS section of the utility. (See also Guideline
11 in Utility Syntax Guidelines .)
The form:
utility_name -f option_argument [-f option_argument]... [operand...]
indicates that the -f option is required to appear at least once and
may appear multiple times.