Re: ls --help --version

I made a slipup in typing its echo that doesn't work right


On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Bob Proulx wrote:

> 
> > ls --help 
> > ls --version 
> > 
> > don't work as documented in the man page
> > ls --version
> > is suppose to display version information
> > all it displays is "--version"
> > 
> > ls --help
> > is suppose to show the man page and exit
> 
> Then the odds are good that you are not using GNU version of those
> utilities.  The GNU version does operate as documented.
> 
>   ls --version
>   ls (fileutils) 4.1
> 
> And so forth.
> 
> Bob
>