Subject: Re: bug#13899: Bugs in echo and printf

From: Ruediger Meier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 23:27:20 +0100

On Thursday 07 March 2013, Sérgio Coutinho wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I discovered a few bugs in echo and printf.
>
> echo --help
> echo --version
> printf --help
> printf --version
>
> They all don't work...
>
> Sergio

Probably you are using the shell builtins. Have you tried with full path
/usr/bin/echo --version
/usr/bin/printf --version

cu,
Rudi