GNU bug report logs - #14617
od - Please add -h option

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>

Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:03:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

Found in version 8.20-3

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 14617 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jari.aalto <at> cante.net
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>@picasso.cante.net
Cc: 14617 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14617: od - Please add -h option
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:16:54 +0300

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?
    ...

Jari
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