Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: '[ --version' should give output, instead a bash error missing re: missing ']' Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:46:41 -0400 Lines: 24 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <56017620.4010303@redhat.com> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1442947623 13724 208.118.235.17 (22 Sep 2015 18:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Eric Blake , Daniel Simeone , bug-bash@gnu.org, bash@packages.debian.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: <56017620.4010303@redhat.com> X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/60, host=mpv6.cwru.edu X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv2.tis.cwru.edu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.105.37 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11550 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/15 11:39 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Bash has not (yet) implemented support for ANY --options to its > builtins Bash-4.4 has --help for all builtins except for a small set listed in the manual. - -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlYBogIACgkQu1hp8GTqdKslKQCgkavag3njXvgJmzBgxuGqbDDx kJ0An1AigcthwISMnM86r0oBbOcSkyon =054h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----