Subject: `seq 1 --help' doesn't give help

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:38:23 -0500

Hello,

I am using coreutils version 8.27 on Fedora, and I don't see this fixed in 8.28's NEWS.

$ seq 1 --help
seq: invalid floating point argument: ‘--help’
Try 'seq --help' for more information.

We should be able to put the options anywhere and not necessarily before any arguments.  And even if not (e.g. POSIX conformance overrides,) --help should be handled specially to conform to the GNU coding standards. [1]

1. https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#g_t_002d_002dhelp

cheers,

Chad.