Because I can't remember which options are supposed to be uppercase and which are not,

rename all of them so we can use non-conflicting lowercase.  Manpage updates pending

bin/ans-command

@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ def main(args):
     parser = base_ans_parser()
     parser.usage = "ans-command [options] command-to-run"
 
-    parser.add_option('-1', '--one-line', dest='one_line', action='store_true', 
+    parser.add_option('-o', '--one-line', dest='one_line', action='store_true', 
         help="output results on one line to make grepping easier, however will \
             not remove newlines from command output")
-    parser.add_option('-o', '--output-dir', dest='output_dest', default=None,
+    parser.add_option('-t', '--tree', dest='output_dest', default=None,
         help="if specified, a directory name to save output to, one file per host")
 
     options, args = parser.parse_args(args)

lib/ansible/scripts.py

@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ import constants as C
 
 def base_ans_parser():
     parser = OptionParser()
-    parser.add_option("-H", "--host-list", dest="host_list",
+    parser.add_option("-l", "--host-list", dest="host_list",
         help="path to hosts list", default=C.DEFAULT_HOST_LIST)
-    parser.add_option("-L", "--library", dest="module_path",
+    parser.add_option("-m", "--module-path", dest="module_path",
         help="path to module library", default=C.DEFAULT_MODULE_PATH)
     parser.add_option('-u', '--user', default=C.DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER, 
         dest='remote_user', help='set the default username')
     parser.add_option("-p", "--pattern", dest="pattern",
         help="hostname pattern", default=C.DEFAULT_PATTERN)
-    parser.add_option("-P", "--askpass", default=False, action="store_true",
+    parser.add_option("-k", "--askpass", default=False, action="store_true",
         help="ask the user to input the ssh password for connecting")
     parser.add_option('-f','--forks', dest='forks', default=C.DEFAULT_FORKS, type='int',
         help='set the number of forks to start up')