tag 22498 notabug close 22498 stop On 01/31/2016 03:45 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > Man cmp: > -i, --ignore-initial=SKIP > skip first SKIP bytes of both inputs > > -i, --ignore-initial=SKIP1:SKIP2 > skip first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2 > I would say: > > -i SKIP, --ignore-initial=SKIP > skip first SKIP bytes of both inputs > > -i SKIP1:SKIP2, --ignore-initial=SKIP1:SKIP2 > skip first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2 > > I mean if the user was smart enough to figure that out, he probably > wouldn't be reading the man page anyway.
'cmp' is not part of the GNU coreutils: $ cmp --help | grep bugs Report bugs to: [email protected] Therefore, I'm marking this as not a bug here. You may want to discuss this on the diffutils mailing list, but I think you'll be directed to this sentence in front of the options list of the --help output: Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. Have a nice day, Berny
