I don't know how else to say it. My question has nothing to do with "documentation". I am talking about any command that recognizes "--help" as a valid option, nothing else. (See my original post.)
Sep 19, 2025, 09:51 by chet.ra...@case.edu: > On 9/19/25 10:46 AM, pourko--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell > wrote: > >>> So this is the bug report? That the builtins that accept --help (some >>> builtins are documented as not accepting any options) do not return 0? >>> >> >> No, it most certainly is not. >> > > And yet you say it is below: > >> To rephrase my original posting: Commands that do support "--help", they >> usually >> exit with return code 0. Wouldn't it be more reasonable if our builtins >> behaved >> the same way? >> > > > > > > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
