What's the difference between one-dash and two-dashes for command prompt parameters?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/372203/w...

Accepted answer links:
[man ls]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ls....

Answer 2 links:
[Wikipedia]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-lin...
[ls]: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ls
[no whitespace between an option and its argument]: https://superuser.com/a/371231/22317
[here]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...

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