Dear Sirs,
Before all, 1000 thanks to GNU developers & maintainers
for excellent GNU utils and permission to use them
even on the proprietary operating systems.
Recently, I heard a guy complaing that "yes --help"
returns is misleading messages.
For example,
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% yes --help
Usage: yes [OPTION]... [STRING]...
Repeatedly output a line with all specified STRING(s), or `y'.
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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He misunderstood as if "yes --help --help" returns Usage once
(as GNU ls does so), but he received repeating "--help --help".
Nothing to say, info file (and a some man pages?) of yes
states as:
The only options are a lone `--help' or `--version'
but such guys are not taught to consider info (nor man pages).
I think it's his failure who does not consider info files,
however, I have to agree with the usage is "misleading".
I wish if it's fixed in next release, as,
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% yes --help
Usage: yes [STRING]...
Repeatedly output a line with all specified STRING(s), or `y'.
or,
yes [OPTION]
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Best Wishes,
suzuki
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