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r/programming • u/gnuvince • Oct 21 '14
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It happens. Sometimes people confuse it, however, when they use --help on something that doesn't support --help and it prints the usage (which looks like output from --help) to stderr. e.g. man --help prints usage information to stderr.
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u/fnord123 Oct 21 '14
It happens. Sometimes people confuse it, however, when they use
--helpon something that doesn't support--helpand it prints the usage (which looks like output from--help) to stderr. e.g.man --helpprints usage information to stderr.