Subject: Re: bug#7938: uname --version BUG

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:22:28 -0800

On 01/29/2011 03:25 PM, Karan Dhindsa wrote:
> When I type the command:
>> uname --version
> 
> it says "illegal option -- version".

Check your $PATH.  I expect you're running the Solaris 'uname',
not coreutils 'uname'.  On my Solaris 10 host:

$ /usr/bin/uname --version
/usr/bin/uname: illegal option -- version
usage:  uname [-snrvmapiX]
        uname [-S system_name]
$ /opt/sfw/bin/uname --version
uname (GNU coreutils) 5.93
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