Is there any precedent for changing command line options after a program has been in production for some time?
Swapping "v" and "V" for editcap and mergecap would bring them in line with the other binaries for calling show_version(). And also align with the verbose option ('V') for tshark and tfshark. (little disruption depending on how many scripts exist that use these commands) Another approach would be to drop "-v" for version and only support "--version" as tcpdump does: https://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html (big disruption since it's muscle memory to have Q&A people run "wireshark -v" and paste the output) https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/2489/ Add command-line argument to request the version to a number of the utilities. https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commit/3773a756
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