Re: ls --help --version

Bob Proulx <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:39:59 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> 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