Josiah Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a version of echo on Gentoo in which the man pages report > --version option, but when issued on the commandline, I get the > string --version instead of the version information.
Are you sure you're running /bin/echo? The Bash builtin echo behaves the way that you describe. POSIX doesn't allow "echo --version" to output a version number, so there's some justification for the Bash behavior. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
