Re: ls --help --version

> > > 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"

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

Please check out the following FAQ on this subject.

  http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/core-utils-faq.html#I%20am%20having%20a%20problem%20with%20kill

You are probably not executing /bin/echo but rather the shell built in
echo.

  type -all echo
  echo is a shell builtin
  echo is /bin/echo

  echo --version
  --version
  /bin/echo --version
  echo (GNU sh-utils) 2.0

Bob