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From: | GNU bug Tracking System |
Subject: | [debbugs-tracker] bug#16396: closed ('echo --help' does not work, but manual says it should) |
Date: | Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:06:02 +0000 |
Your message dated Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:05:51 -0700 with message-id <address@hidden> and subject line Re: bug#16396: 'echo --help' does not work, but manual says it should has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #16396, regarding 'echo --help' does not work, but manual says it should to be marked as done. (If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact address@hidden) -- 16396: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16396 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact address@hidden with problems
--- Begin Message ---Subject: 'echo --help' does not work, but manual says it should Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:50:06 -0500 $ uname -aOne of these is wrong...
Linux guilmon 3.11.0-13-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 07:38:26 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ man echo
[...]
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
[...]
$ echo --help
--help
$ echo --version
--version
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: bug#16396: 'echo --help' does not work, but manual says it should Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:05:51 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 tag 16396 notabug thanks On 01/07/2014 01:50 PM, Rena wrote: > $ uname -a > Linux guilmon 3.11.0-13-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 07:38:26 UTC 2013 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > $ man echo > [...] > --help display this help and exit > > --version > output version information and exit > [...] You elided this part of the man page... NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo, which usually super‐ sedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu‐ mentation for details about the options it supports. But as your followup mentions that you figured that out, I'm closing this bug. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.orgsignature.asc
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