GNU bug report logs - #16396
'echo --help' does not work, but manual says it should

Previous Next

Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Rena <hyperhacker <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

To add a comment to this bug, you must first unarchive it, by sending
a message to control AT debbugs.gnu.org, with unarchive 16396 in the body.
You can then email your comments to 16396 AT debbugs.gnu.org in the normal way.

Toggle the display of automated, internal messages from the tracker.

View this report as an mbox folder, status mbox, maintainer mbox

Report forwarded to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org:
bug#16396; Package coreutils. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:02:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Acknowledgement sent to Rena <hyperhacker <at> gmail.com>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:02:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rena <hyperhacker <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: 'echo --help' does not work, but manual says it should
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:50:06 -0500

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
$ 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
[...]

$ echo --help
--help

$ echo --version
--version

One of these is wrong...

-- 
Sent from my Game Boy.

[Message part 2 (text/html, inline)]
Information forwarded to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org:
bug#16396; Package coreutils. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 21:04:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #8 received at 16396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rena <hyperhacker <at> gmail.com>
To: 16396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: derp
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 16:03:07 -0500

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Nevermind, I'm a dummy and forgot bash has its own `echo` built in.

-- 
Sent from my Game Boy.

[Message part 2 (text/html, inline)]
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:06:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Reply sent to Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>:
You have taken responsibility. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:06:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Notification sent to Rena <hyperhacker <at> gmail.com>:
bug acknowledged by developer. (Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:06:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #15 received at 16396-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Rena <hyperhacker <at> gmail.com>, 16396-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16396: 'echo --help' does not work, but manual says it should
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:05:51 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
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.org


[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 222 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.