Hello, please excuse me if this is not the right mailing list to ask the question.
I have two different systems (Debina and SuSE), both with coreutils version 5.2.1 installed. The "uniq" commands on both system print the same version number (5.2.1), but support different command line options. In particular the first system's "uniq" supports the "-W" option, the second system's "uniq" does not. Is this a (version numbering) bug, or intended behavior? I thought that the "coreutils" version number described a set of commands together with their features and bugs, new features causing a new version number. If a shell script depends on uniq's "-W" feature, how can it check for the right "coreutils" version, without actually calling "uniq --help" and parse its output? Heiner -- ___ _ / __| |_ _____ _____ _ _ Heiner STEVEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \__ \ _/ -_) V / -_) ' \ Shell Script Programmers: visit |___/\__\___|\_/\___|_||_| http://www.shelldorado.com/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
