Subject: Re: bug#14617: od - Please add -h option

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:07:22 +0100

On 06/14/2013 10:16 AM, [email-masked] wrote:
> On 2013-06-14 09:48, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> | tag 14617 notabug
> | close 14617
> | stop
> | 
> | od accepts the undocumented/obsolescent -h option as an alias for -x
> 
> If the "-h" is not really in core of the current program (obsolete,
> undocumented), it would be nice if program could displat this on
> STDERR to help users:
> 
>     od -h
>     Warning: obsolete option, interpreted as -x. Did you mean --help?
>     ...

A fair suggestion, though we usually restrict warning messages
to options that are scheduled to be removed in future.
Without this warning, would probably resort to the man page,
when there was no output from -h
Also the intersection of od users that wouldn't know about --help
would be very small I'd guess, so I'm inclined to leave
things as they are now.

thanks,
Pádraig.