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bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#33468: A bug with yes and --help
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:45:19 -0800
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Bernhard Voelker wrote:
At least for 'yes', one could argument that the program should only
care about the (GNU) long options --help and --version if they are the
only argument, and take everything else as the string(s) to be output

Why is the situation different for 'yes' than for other commands? The GNU coding standards are clear that 'yes --help foo' should act like 'yes --help'.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dhelp.html





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