[debbugs-tracker] bug#14373: closed (echo command)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: echo command Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 17:30:17 -0500

echo --help

 

It is not giving me the help information. It is printing --help

I would like to use the echo options but it seems that is not working as the man echo says. So I am little bit lost here. How to use the echo options?

 

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

 

-Cesar   

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#14373: echo command Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 17:11:12 -0600 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.5

tag 14373 notabug
thanks

On 05/08/2013 04:30 PM, Cesar Celis Hernández wrote:
> echo --help
> 
> 
> 
> It is not giving me the help information. It is printing --help

That means you aren't testing coreutils' echo.

Try 'env echo --help' or '/bin/echo --help'.  And once you DO test
coreutils' echo, notice this disclaimer as part of that help text:

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo, which usually supersedes
the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.

which explains why your simpler 'echo --help' didn't do what you expected.

As such, I'm closing this as not a bug, although you may feel free to
add further comments or questions.

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